Nick Partridge

About Nick Partridge

Software Engineer passionate about writing efficient, DRY, scalable and maintainable JavaScript in the full stack.

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Engineer

   Elastic

   May 2020 — Present

   Core maintainer of @elastic/charts, the primary charting library used across Kibana. • Custom chart implementations include faceted heatmaps, simplified scatterplots, bullet, gauge and goal charts.• Migrated existing Jenkins and GitHub jobs to buildkite with no downtime, improving total ci run times by 70% with parallelization.• Developed an improved implementation of d3\'s stackOffsetDiverging, to account for edge cases with percent, silhouette and wiggle offsets.• Implemented a visual regression testing framework using Playwright to increase confidence when merging major refactors of critical library logic.• Created a framework to mock unit test parameters and data to reduce duplicated code and improve developer productivity.• Improved code consistency using strict linting rules with minimal developer imposition. Refactored chart renderer for core chart visualizations across Kibana replacing the legacy chart rendering library. Changes affected over ~50% of user-facing charts with virtually zero negative impact to users.

Education

• Purdue University

  Master of Science (MS), Civil Engineering | Structural Focus

  2013 — 2014

• Arizona State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering

  2010 — 2013

• Hack Reactor

  Computer Software Engineering

  2016 — 2017

Skills

• Redux.js
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Docker
• Mysql
• Bookself.js
• Matlab
• Angular.js
• Git
• Mongodb
• Sequelize.js
• Python
• Bootstrap
• Postgresql
• Html5
• React
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Engineering
• Sass
• Javascript
• Backbone.js
• Selenium Webdriver
• Elasticsearch
• React.js
• Grunt.js
• Graphql.js
• Jquery.js
• Mocha.js
• Mongoose.js
• Natural Language Toolkit
• Leadership
• Machine Learning
• Project Planning
• Vue.js
• Material UI
• Chai.js