Senior Software Engineer, Ruby on Rails
Greater San Diego Area
- Current
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- Freelance Web Developer at Beyond the Path, LLC
- Co-founder at Beautiful Feet International
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- Software Engineer at Digitaria Interactive
- Web Developer at ROOV
- Programmer/Analyst II at UCSD Libraries
- Programmer/Analyst I at San Diego Supercomputer Center
- Programmer/Analyst I at UCSD Libraries
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
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Nick Zadrozny’s Summary
As a web developer I thrive on helping to discover and shape the vision and scope of an application based on the needs of its users. I enjoy participating on all levels of a project life cycle, from concept and planning through implementation to final deployment and user testing.
Nick Zadrozny’s Specialties:
Agile development methodologies, brainstorming, code quality, cloud computing, Linux, non-profit organizations, Ruby, Rails, semantic web, server administration, strategic planning, test-driven development, web design and development, web development workflow
Nick Zadrozny’s Experience
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Freelance Web Developer
Beyond the Path, LLC
(Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Have worked with over a dozen clients to date in producing a range of websites, from the quick, focused and pragmatic all the way up to sophisticated social networks and online business ventures.
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Co-founder
Beautiful Feet International
(Religious Institutions industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Developing web-based tools to inform, connect and equip missionaries and the church.
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Software Engineer
Digitaria Interactive
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
May 2009 — November 2009 (7 months)
Responsible for delivering several major subsystems on a $1.5M intranet application developed for a Fortune 500 company. Drove implementation phases of user homepage/dashboard functionality, working closely with members of a small team to ultimately release on time and under budget. Deployed multi-role staging and production server clusters using automated configuration management and custom server provisioning tools.
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Web Developer
ROOV
(Religious Institutions industry)
May 2008 — December 2008 (8 months)
Building an online community that connects like-minded individuals around their shared experiences and passions within their church and city.
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Programmer/Analyst II
UCSD Libraries
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
September 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Java web development building semantic web tools to store and manage digital library collections.
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Programmer/Analyst I
San Diego Supercomputer Center
(Educational Institution; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — March 2005 (6 months)
Set up an internal wiki for our group and wrote a lot of technical documentation and a few administrative scripts.
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Programmer/Analyst I
UCSD Libraries
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — October 2004 (2 years )
Nick Zadrozny’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
B.A. , Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts and Music, Minor in Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
My first two years were spent studying Mathematics and Computer Science, but I found ICAM to be a much better blend of the creativity and abstract thinking required for successful web development. A minor in CS helped supplement and formalize the passion I have for programming and technology.
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Nick Zadrozny’s Interests:
Art and technology, backpacking, Christianity, elegant design, foreign cultures, globalization, Jesus, literature, music, my rad friends and family, scuba diving, snowboarding, technology and the church, thunderstorms, Unix one-liners, web development
Nick Zadrozny’s Groups:
Vineyard Christian Fellowship
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Nick Zadrozny’s Honors:
UCSD — Best of ICAM, 2005
Nick Zadrozny’s Contact Settings
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