Resume | Nicolaos Skimas

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at The Home Depot
- Enabling teams to build accessible and consistent UIs at scale through support, documentation, and reusable themes
- Partnering with UX designers and accessibility specialists to refine and expand our enterprise design system
- Building robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Platform
Software Engineer at The Home Depot
- Built and maintained an Express/React application that generated multi-billion dollar annual revenue
- Lead a cross-functional guild focused on fostering frontend excellence through education and collaboration
- Practiced agile development techniques using the Scrum framework
Software Developer at Trend Capital
- Helped develop new marketing sites and web forms using Laravel and Sass
Front End Developer at Dice Services
- Maintained a data-driven application built in AngularJS supporting resellers and end users
- Modernized large parts of the application to take advantage of new JS features and syntax
Web Development Intern at Glenwood Community Church
- Helped develop an online giving page on the church's Drupal site
- Wrote custom Sass for the church's website and internal contact management system

B.A. in Digital Technology and Culture from Washington State University Vancouver
- Minor: Communications

Highly skilled in writing accessible HTML, modern CSS, and modular JavaScript/TypeScript
Experienced in developing client, server, and statically rendered websites
Very comfortable working with modern dev tools such as Git, NPM, formatters, etc.
Adept at writing clear and well structured documentation
Capable of setting up automated deployment pipelines

Talented at communicating technical concepts to non-technical partners and newer devs
Passionate about prioritizing the needs of the end user
Able to identify and resolve ambiguity in complex discussions
Continually seeking to grow and learn from industry leaders and coworkers