Nick Sladden
Philosophy student turned Web Developer - primarily focused on Front-end, UI/UX Engineering, design systems, and building component libraries.
Work
Senior UX Engineer
2023Randstad
Leveraging a fork of the services developed by Monster, a subsidiary of Randstad, took the lead in several aspects of my team’s setup of a completely new architecture for the company’s multi-brand design system named Orbit for their rebranding initiatives. This included choosing the latest tooling options, styling solutions, and streamlining the consumption of our Figma output.
UX Engineer
2021-2023Monster Worldwide
Developed a robust multi-brand design system focusing on extensibility and usability. Through custom services, our team bridged the gap between design and code by fully leveraging the Figma API to create a complete connection between design tokens and react components.
Software Engineer II
2019-2021EOG Resources, Inc.
Developed robust web applications and services for the purpose of optimizing the performance of production wells, aiding the field engineers who monitor them, and tracking the company’s emissions. Within my first year, I quickly got up to speed and had hands in all new and old applications developed by my team. I became the senior front-end developer of the newest cutting-edge data visualization applications for the team that aided in stochastic modeling. Later, I led the charge at the company to implement a growing design system by creating and maintaining component and color libraries for web applications at the company.
Projects
Orbit Design System
2021-2023Randstad
- Leveraging a fork of the services developed by Monster, a subsidiary of Randstad, I took the lead in several aspects of my team's setup of a completely new architecture for the company`s multi-brand design system named Orbit for their rebranding initiatives.
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I lead the charge on updating our tooling for our libraries,
including updating our unit testing suite from
jest
tovitest
, rehauling and streamlining ourTypescript
component and style types for easier use with updates tostyled-components
v5, as well as simplifying ourJenkins
scripts for our CI/CD pipelines. - I worked daily with our design leads to create a new token system, documenting both design and development documentation on a third-party system called supernova.io (a CMS-like documentation application with the sole goal of documenting design systems), optimizing our custom-drawn icon libraries and automating the publication of icons as SVG sprites, all to align with the organizations rebranding.
Education
Full Stack Flex Program Certificate
2017-2018Houston Coding Bootcamp
A six-month intensive certificate program focusing on full-stack web development.
M.A. in Humanities — History of Ideas
2010-2014The University of Texas at Dallas
An interdisciplinary degree that melded history and philosophy.
B.A. In Philosophy
2007-2010The University of North Texas
Leveraging a fork of the services developed by Monster, a subsidiary of Randstad, took the lead in several aspects of my team’s setup of a completely new architecture for the company’s multi-brand design system named Orbit for their rebranding initiatives. This included choosing the latest tooling options, styling solutions, and streamlining the consumption of our Figma output.