Nick Fausti

New York, NY 10009 · (609) 575-4324 · ncfausti@gmail.com

Current Projects:

  • Langley AI Language learning partner w/ Speech-to-Text and TTS synthesis using LLMs. VR-based platform coming soon.
  • Bookcard.me A simple web app that allows you to share your favorite book recommendations.

Experience

Lead Software Engineer

Clyde
  • Led a team of 5 software engineers to develop and maintain client facing applications used by millions of people
  • Ongoing full-stack development and engineering management
August 2022 – December 2022

Founding Software Engineer

smile ML
  • Developed two desktop application minimum viable products (MVPs) in one month using Node.js, Electron, React, Tailwind, and Firebase
  • Ongoing full-stack development and engineering management for cross-platform machine learning based applications
  • Developed a calendar synchronization system and data pipeline to integrate and launch application based on calendar events and attendants
June 2021 – July 2022

Technical Advisor

Intellectus App
  • Architected and developed an MVP of an online learning platform in vanilla JS, Flask, and Open-CV
  • Computer vision-based web application to help keep students engaged in class and increase retention of material
  • App is currently in use by NASA JPL and California public schools
March 2020 – May 2021

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Brightfield Group
  • Developed a full-stack single-page application dashboard in React to view analytics information related to NLP
  • Built a RESTful API in Django to facilitate interaction between backend databases and front-end of dashboard
  • Integrated various social media APIs into SPA backend
  • Scraped content from web, regularized, and stored in backend to be used in offline machine learning processing
  • Built an openCV landing page that takes in user’s photos and returns color palettes for each image
  • Built a marketing landing-page and social login data collection CMS
June 2017 – Present

Associate Director – Software Engineering

IQVIA
  • Built an API to expose machine learning models that help facilitate the selection of clinical trial investigator sites
  • Created a React front-end to display results and allow users to interactively apply changes to model parameters of ML API
June 2017 – April 2019

Senior Research Programmer

University of Pennsylvania - Positive Psychology Center
  • Developed a single-page application front-end for a personality evaluation tool
  • Scraped all hospital reviews from Yelp using Scrapy library to run differential language analysis on
  • Ran differential language analysis on multiple hospital characteristics using yelp review language data
  • Building web infrastructure to expose internal natural language processing APIs to external researchers
June 2016 – June 2017

Research Programmer

University of Pennsylvania - School of Medicine
  • Created a tool to automate the visual selection and data analysis of the calcium signaling fluorescence variation in cells as a result of pharmacological treatments using OpenCV, matplotlib, and Python.
  • Created a web based mapping and search system with Google Maps to help with the inference of a correlation between healthcare utilization in Northeastern Pennsylvania and hydraulic natural gas fracturing nearby.
  • Developed a freezer/reagent inventory application with Django, DRF API, and iOS barcode scanning front-end.
  • Worked as part of a team to create a natural language search system using the Python NLTK library to allow scientists to search medical records, environmental exposure data, and retrieve blood/tissue sample information for those records in plain English queries.
  • Successfully managed the migration of tissue sample data and participant case report form data into a new laboratory information management system at the proof of concept stage.
  • Gathered requirements for lab workflows and processes to be used as a model for future data migrations throughout the Perelman School of Medicine/Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Working on creating an ontological framework to be used as a data standard for biomedical investigations throughout the Perelman School of Medicine.
  • Working on an iOS application for principal investigators to use as a tool to stay informed on the state of various projects/studies and view results from experiments involved with each study.
December 2011 – May 2016

Software Engineer

Single Throw Internet Marketing
June 2011 – November 2011

Software Engineer Test

Comcast Corporation
January 2010 – June 2010

Software Developer Intern

Johnson & Johnson
June 2008 – September 2009

Education

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Science in Engineering
Computer and Information Science
2020

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Bachelor of Arts
Information Technology & Informatics; Economics
2009

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Core Competencies
  • Full-Stack Software Engineering
  • Game Development in Unreal Engine and Unity
  • Computer Vision and Computational Photography
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Applied Machine Learning/Deep Learning w/ scikit-learn & PyTorch
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Web Development
  • Cross-Browser Web Scraping, Testing, & Debugging
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Interests

Apart from being a software engineer, the majority of my time is spent learning new things that interest me.

I love traveling and new experiences. I spent most of 2018 living around the world with 35 other people, while doing a program called Remote Year.

I enjoy spending as much time in nature as possible and also love photography. You can check out my Instagram here.

Publications

  • Seltzer, E. K., Guntuku, S. C., Lanza, A. L., Tufts, C., Srinivas, S. K., Klinger, E. V., Asch, D. A., Fausti, N., Ungar, L. H., & Merchant, R. M. (2022)
    Patient Experience and Satisfaction in Online Reviews of Obstetric Care: Observational Study.
    JMIR formative research, 6(3), e28379. https://doi.org/10.2196/28379
  • Agarwal A, Mahoney K, Lanza A, Klinger E, Asch A, Fausti N, Tufts C, Ungar L, Merchant R (2018)
    Online Ratings of the Patient Experience: Emergency Departments Versus Urgent Care Centers
    Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 73, Issue 6, 631 - 638
  • Jemielita T, Gerton GL, Neidell M, Chillrud S, Yan B, Stute M, et al. (2015)
    Unconventional Gas and Oil Drilling Is Associated with Increased Hospital Utilization Rates.
    PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131093.