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

2023

Randstad

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

2021-2023

Monster 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

2019-2021

EOG 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

2021-2023

Randstad

Randstad Orbit design system screens
  • 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.
  • I lead the charge on updating our tooling for our libraries, including updating our unit testing suite from
    jest
    to
    vitest
    , rehauling and streamlining our
    Typescript
    component and style types for easier use with updates to
    styled-components
    v5, as well as simplifying our
    Jenkins
    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

2017-2018

Houston Coding Bootcamp

A six-month intensive certificate program focusing on full-stack web development.

M.A. in Humanities — History of Ideas

2010-2014

The University of Texas at Dallas

An interdisciplinary degree that melded history and philosophy.

B.A. In Philosophy

2007-2010

The 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.