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Last updated on 2025-04-02.

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Nick Strayer

As a software developer I use my background in data science to build tools to help people explore, understand, and work with their data better. I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.

Selected Industry Experience

Principal Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

Current - 2024

  • Architect and develop full-stack solutions for the Positron data science IDE
  • Worked across the Typescript, Python, and Rust codebase to build user-centric interfaces that balance performance with intuitive design
  • Collaborate across teams to ensure reliable, maintainable codebase architecture
  • Mentored junior developers on frontend best practices and code quality standards

Senior Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

2024 - 2023

  • Created and led development of ShinyUiEditor, a React-based drag-and-drop interface builder
  • Designed architecture for real-time previewing and component manipulation using custom psuedo-ast format that allowed translation into either R or Python from the same ast.
  • Spearheaded work to simplift and unify the UI layer of R and Shiny using custom webcomponents.

Software Engineer

Posit

Remote

2023 - 2020

  • Part of team who created Shiny for Python, a ground-up rewrite of R’s Shiny framework in Python

Data Journalist - Graphics Department

New York Times

New York, New York

2016

  • Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
  • Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.
  • Developed interactive, data-dense visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of users

Education

PhD., Biostatistics

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

2020

B.S., Mathematics, Statistics (minor C.S.)

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

2015

  • Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana
  • Focused on computational efficiency, simulation optimization, and interactive model exploration

Selected Data Science Writing

The Great Student Migration

The New York Times

N/A

2016

  • Most shared NYT article of August 2016, demonstrating ability to create engaging UIs.
  • Used d3.js to realtime render 100 maps for personalized inspection for readers.

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

  • Achieved 4,800x performance improvement for large-scale genomic data processing.
  • Reached top of HackerNews multiple times