Nick Nish

Bonsai is a YCombinator company looking to be the freelancer product suite with contracts, invoices, accounting, and more. • Full-stack development using Ruby on Rails, ES6, React.js, Redux, jQuery, vanilla JavaScript • Real-time Browser Notifications with ActionCable (WebSockets) • Slack OAuth integration • Electron macOS desktop app • React-Redux Timetracker • First full-time developer after the cofounder

My role revolved around all user-facing BloomNation products, including their marketplace, resource center for florists, email marketing, florist tools, and any other front-end work. • BloomNation.com design implementation ⎯⎯⎯ Collaborating with the founders, product, dev, and design, I implemented multiple design iterations. ⎯⎯⎯ Designed and implemented mocks for brand partnerships with theSkimm and August Lock • BloomNation Resource Center (florist blog) ⎯⎯⎯ Side-by-side with the product, community, and design teams, built (from AWS instance to unit testing) and launched a deeply customized WordPress installation. • Optimized Front-end Workflow with Grunt ⎯⎯⎯ Improved performance, development time, and allowed use of modern tools such as minification, Sass/SCSS, JavaScript linters, and more. • Front-end performance auditing and improvements ⎯⎯⎯ Minification mentioned above and code cleanup optimized site wide page load by >25%. • Email Marketing Workflow ⎯⎯⎯ Built the email design workflow for developing emails using Grunt, Sass/SCSS, and Handlebars. ⎯⎯⎯ Utilized the leading tools, including Litmus, MailChimp, and Marketo. • Google Tag Manager Implementation ⎯⎯⎯ Helped implement Google Analytics with GTM to make data-driven product decisions. • Documentation Improvement and Github Repo Cleanup ⎯⎯⎯ Wrote, improved, and maintained documentation ⎯⎯⎯ Pruned hundreds of unused files from the repository ⎯⎯⎯ Organized thousands of lines of CSS into a modular library ⎯⎯⎯ Standardized the JavaScript and CSS