Nicholas Cross
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer.
Email: njcross1990@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Nicholas Cross
GitHub: Nicholas Cross
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer.
Email: njcross1990@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Nicholas Cross
GitHub: Nicholas Cross
Versatile Full-Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience driving enterprise-scale development at companies like Ontraport and BigCommerce. Adept at building scalable, cloud-based solutions using modern technologies including React, Python, PHP, and C++. Combines strong programming and DevOps expertise with a passion for problem-solving, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. Known for rapidly mastering recent technologies, tackling complex challenges, and delivering under pressure in both independent and team-driven environments.
MyPlayTray – Consultant / Senior Product Engineer
content.json and session storageCoding Temple Projects
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Password login and OAuth via Google for a frictionless sign-in experience.
Facet filters, sorting, and grid/list toggles for all collection: catalog, orders, and inventory. Also able to save your favorite filters to return to later.
Admin-only image picker/text editor wired to content.json for live content updates.
Authenticated users submit star ratings & comments; average rating updates in real time.
Save kits for later, compare at a glance, and add to cart quickly.
User self-service for email updates, password changes, and account control.
Modal-based CRUD for kit metadata, categories, age ranges, and media.
Compose, save, and send parent newsletters with a rich text editor.
Filter by kit/location and edit quantities inline for simple stock control.
Admin & user views; status updates, locker codes, shipping details, and actions.
Promote/demote roles and manage accounts with guardrails.
Visualize inventory locations with AdvancedMarkers on product detail.
Choose a specific inventory location; quantities are tracked and managed automatically after succesful checkout.
Cart items carry selected location; checkout can require shipping for warehouse items and are stored in local storage.
Stripe card entry with browser wallets (e.g., Google Pay), address capture, and “shipping same as billing”.
CI pipeline runs unit tests, builds React, syncs content.json, and restarts backend services on EC2 (PM2 + Redis listener).
PS C:\Users\njcro\m7project> .\deploy.bat "fixes" Uploading restart script... restart_backend.sh 100% 1257 15.7KB/s 00:00 Restarting backend on EC2... 🔍 Inspecting content.json status... 📁 Found content.json 📄 Committing local content.json changes before pulling... [main bdac228] Auto-commit: Preserve local content.json before pull 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 📥 Pulling latest changes from main... From github.com:njcross/ProductSite * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD 336505e..16f604f main -> origin/main Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/main. 🔍 Checking for content.json differences from origin/main... 📤 Pushing merged content.json changes... On branch main Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit. (use "git push" to publish your local commits) Untracked files: (use "git add..." to include in what will be committed) react-router-bootstrap-app/public/images/game_kit.jpg react-router-bootstrap-app/public/images/gears.jpg react-router-bootstrap-app/public/images/solar_system.jpg nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) ✅ content.json sync complete. To github.com:njcross/ProductSite.git 16f604f..f7530f7 main -> main ➜ 1. Committing changes... [main ae3c6b0] fixes 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) remote: Enumerating objects: 13, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (13/13), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 8 (delta 5), reused 5 (delta 4), pack-reused 0 (from 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), 5.63 KiB | 128.00 KiB/s, done. From github.com:njcross/ProductSite * branch main -> FETCH_HEAD e44af6a..f7530f7 main -> origin/main Merge made by the 'ort' strategy. README.md | Bin 21756 -> 10975 bytes react-router-bootstrap-app/public/content.json | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Enumerating objects: 18, done. Counting objects: 100% (14/14), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done. Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 766 bytes | 766.00 KiB/s, done. Total 8 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (5/5), completed with 5 local objects. To github.com:njcross/ProductSite.git f7530f7..ecebe59 main -> main ≡ƒÄ¿ Deploying FRONTEND... ≡ƒº¬ Running frontend tests... Test Suites: 51 passed, 51 total Tests: 57 passed, 57 total Snapshots: 0 total Time: 16.695 s Ran all test suites. npm notice npm notice New major version of npm available! 10.9.0 -> 11.5.2 npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v11.5.2 npm notice To update run: npm install -g npm@11.5.2 npm notice ➜ Frontend tests passed. ≡ƒöä Syncing content.json from server... content.json 100% 9127 53.4KB/s 00:00 ≡ƒÅù∩╕Å Building the frontend... > react-router-bootstrap-app@0.1.0 build > react-scripts build && node sitemap-generator.js Creating an optimized production build... Compiled successfully. File sizes after gzip: 217.91 kB build\static\js\main.2662862b.js 46.15 kB build\static\css\main.afb16abe.css 2.71 kB build\static\js\488.a3b316c2.chunk.js The project was built assuming it is hosted at /. You can control this with the homepage field in your package.json. The build folder is ready to be deployed. You may serve it with a static server: serve -s build Find out more about deployment here: https://cra.link/deployment ➜ Build completed successfully. ≡ƒÜÇ Uploading React build to EC2... ≡ƒôª Backing up current build on EC2... ≡ƒôñ Uploading new build... apple-touch-icon.png 100% 9824 111.6KB/s 00:00 asset-manifest.json 100% 517 6.1KB/s 00:00 content.json 100% 9127 107.4KB/s 00:00 favicon-96x96.png 100% 4757 56.7KB/s 00:00 favicon.ico 100% 15KB 179.7KB/s 00:00 favicon.svg 100% 32KB 377.4KB/s 00:00 0FB1E43D-AE6E-4F5D-9291-2EB72C8CBD6B.png 100% 3176KB 3.7MB/s 00:00 6cfd37544b11fa9e03b3480eec1fe8f7.jpg 100% 372KB 1.8MB/s 00:00 AdvancedMarker.css 100% 425 6.5KB/s 00:00 C8121279-0275-40C4-8B38-F0CD0DCE627F.png 100% 323KB 1.7MB/s 00:00 canstockphoto22402523-arcos-creator.com_.jpg 100% 72KB 435.7KB/s 00:00 character_routes.py 100% 2961 43.2KB/s 00:00 content.json 100% 5449 66.5KB/s 00:00 download.jfif 100% 3595 41.8KB/s 00:00 download_1.jfif 100% 4122 49.1KB/s 00:00 favicon.ico 100% 15KB 191.3KB/s 00:00 hero.png 100% 341KB 1.8MB/s 00:00 InventoryMap.css 100% 177 1.8KB/s 00:00 kit_01.png 100% 27KB 323.8KB/s 00:00 paperplateanimals-main.jpg 100% 141KB 779.0KB/s 00:00 paper_toy_houses.jpg 100% 210KB 1.2MB/s 00:00 pipecleaner_animals.jpg 100% 56KB 373.0KB/s 00:00 step1.png 100% 135KB 841.6KB/s 00:00 step2.png 100% 130KB 794.8KB/s 00:00 step3.png 100% 136KB 757.2KB/s 00:00 Story_Card_Game_1.jpg 100% 213KB 1.3MB/s 00:00 Turkey_Day_Placematjpg.jfif 100% 8894 125.9KB/s 00:00 index.html 100% 1626 18.9KB/s 00:00 manifest.json 100% 618 7.2KB/s 00:00 robots.txt 100% 178 1.8KB/s 00:00 sitemap.xml 100% 938 9.4KB/s 00:00 main.afb16abe.css 100% 309KB 1.7MB/s 00:00 main.afb16abe.css.map 100% 680KB 3.4MB/s 00:00 488.a3b316c2.chunk.js 100% 7424 58.5KB/s 00:00 488.a3b316c2.chunk.js.map 100% 17KB 178.9KB/s 00:00 main.2662862b.js 100% 832KB 3.0MB/s 00:00 main.2662862b.js.LICENSE.txt 100% 2711 29.1KB/s 00:00 main.2662862b.js.map 100% 3160KB 7.6MB/s 00:00 web-app-manifest-192x192.png 100% 9415 98.9KB/s 00:00 web-app-manifest-512x512.png 100% 26KB 299.4KB/s 00:00 ✅ Deployment completed successfully 🚀 Deploying BACKEND... 🧰 Ensuring Redis is installed on EC2... 🛠️ Configuring Redis keyspace notifications... OK 🧩 Ensuring Redis listener is running via PM2... [PM2] Applying action deleteProcessId on app [redis-listener](ids: [ 1 ]) ✓ ┌────┬────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ ├────┼────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ 2 │ backend │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 1897129 │ 2M │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 13.4mb │ ec2-user │ disabled │ └────┴────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘ [PM2] Starting /home/ec2-user/ProductSite/backend/scripts/redis_listener.py in fork_mode (1 instance) [PM2] Done. ┌────┬───────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ ├────┼───────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┬──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤ │ 2 │ backend │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 1897129 │ 2M │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 13.4mb │ ec2-user │ disabled │ │ 3 │ redis-listener │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 1784031 │ 0s │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 4.0kb │ ec2-user │ disabled │ └────┴───────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘ [notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.3.1 -> 25.2 [notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip 🧪 Running backend tests... ✅ Backend tests passed. Restarting backend on EC2... WARNING: You are using pip version 21.3.1; however, version 25.2 is available. You should consider upgrading via the '/home/ec2-user/ProductSite/backend/venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command. INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl MySQLImpl. INFO [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume non-transactional DDL. CORS_ORIGIN: ['https://www.myplaytray.com', 'https:/myplaytray.com'] Database tables created! [PM2] Applying action deleteProcessId on app [backend](ids: [ 2 ]) ✓ ┌────┬───────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐ │ id │ name │ namespace │ version │ mode │ pid │ uptime │ ↺ │ status │ cpu │ mem │ user │ watching │ ├────┼───────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┬──────┼───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┤ │ 5 │ backend │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 1784591 │ 0s │ 0 │ online │ 0% │ 4.0kb │ ec2-user │ disabled │ │ 4 │ redis-listener │ default │ N/A │ fork │ 0 │ 0 │ 15 │ errored │ 0% │ 0b │ ec2-user │ disabled │ └────┴───────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘ ✅ Deployment completed successfully
| Technology | Proficiency | Years of Experience |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | Expert | 12 |
| SQL/Redis | Expert | 12 |
| C++ | Intermediate | 10 |
| Python | Advanced | 2 |
| JavaScript/React | Advanced | 6 |
| TypeScript | Intermediate | 1+ |
Full Stack Senior Product Development Engineer, Consultant (2025–Present)
Senior Fullstack Engineer, BigCommerce (2023–2024)
Backend Engineer, Ontraport (2013–2023)
IT Specialist, Mindspan Consulting (2009–2013)