About me

Howdy! My name is Nic Young I live in beautiful Denver, Colorado. I am a Software Engineer by trade and I have worked in all areas of the stack through out my career, from writing ETL pipelines, to writing REST and GraphQL API's, to writing UI's on the frontend. I don't prefer a particular area of the stack, I just like to work on interesting problems.

Apart from computers I love spending time with my wife, my son and my 2 dogs. I also enjoy hiking, brewing (and enjoying) beer, hockey, gardening and writing. I am always trying to channel my inner Dale Cooper in all aspects of my life.

Projects

Active

• Burgundy Review - I helped co-found this site after our previous community was taken over by a hostile managing editor. We are slowly becoming the biggest fan run Avalanche hockey blog on the interwebs. We have a Discord server too, come join us!

Retired

• Co-Chapter Leader for Operation Code Denver - Operation Code is a non-profit organization that helps veterans, military spouses and pretty much anyone launch careers in software development by helping them learn to code and providing mentorship. I was co-chair of the local Denver chapter which helps run local hackathons and meetups as well as local mentorship.

• Algorithms - This was a repo I orginally started when I was struggling with my algorithms course. It seems there was a demand for this kind of educational repo as I received tons of PR's and issues. I reviewed all PR's personally and added auto generated documention and CI pipeline for this project.

• Python Morsels - I created this for common Python patterns that I wanted documented as I kept coming across them.

• Micro Compiler - This was a micro compiler that I wrote from scratch for my compilers course.

• Universal Compiler - This was also for my compiler course, but is an implementation of a more complete compiler.

• Array Size - A project I created when I was working as a Systems Administrator to help me figure out array sizes with different RAID configurations.