Software Engineer, currently working full-time

Nick Taylor

Passionate Junior Software Engineer at Rocktop.io's Generative AI Team developing Scalable, Cutting-Edge, AI-Empowered Applications in the Mortgage Space. Take a look at my Projects and Blog to learn more about my software and interests.

About

A quick introduction.

I started learning Java when I was 11 years old because I wanted to make Minecraft mods. I loved overcoming the challenges of programming and the feeling of creating something of my own. Throughout the rest of grade school I learned Python and C#, the two languages I use professionally today.

I am a first year Software Engineer who's had the pleasure of helping develop several backend servers, microservices, and full stack applications.

Outside of work I manage a handful of side projects and write about what I'm learning in my blog.

Frameworks & libraries

  • Pydantic
  • FastAPI
  • SqlAlchemy
  • Alembic
  • React
  • Angular
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Flutter
  • Gin

Cloud Services

  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Service Bus
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS S3
  • AWS RDS
  • AWS Route 53

Tools & platforms

  • Azure
  • ADO
  • AWS
  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • Git

Projects

What I've built.

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Bit Bastion

CLI password manager + encrypted file tree

Portable encrypted file tree and password manager CLI, written in Rust. A master password unlocks a SHA-256-derived AES-GCM key that encrypts both secrets and arbitrary files in a single vault.

  • Rust
  • AES-GCM
  • SHA-256
GitHub
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Eagle Hub

Cross-platform mobile app

Helps UNT students navigate campus food resources around dietary needs and preferences. Team project following an AGILE workflow.

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • Google Maps API
GitHub
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Nich Neuron

Concurrent personal server in Go

Locally hosted server that concurrently runs FTP, HTTP, and email services plus a cron-like scheduler using Go's concurrency primitives. Tested end-to-end with Postman.

  • Go
  • Gin
  • REST
  • Postman
GitHub
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This website

Next.js portfolio + blog

The site you're reading — built with Next.js App Router, Tailwind, and MDX for the blog. Deployed on AWS.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
  • MDX
  • AWS
GitHub

Experience

Where I've worked.

  1. SUMMER 2025 – Present

    Junior Software Engineer · Rocktop.io

    My team is primarily focused on developing AI-based doc intelligence microservices at scale. My work ranges from scaling LLM API calls to making embeddings based classification services. My time at Rocktop has been spent developing and maintaining the core GenAI microservices as well as building two full stack products leveraging the GenAI ecosystem.

    • FastAPI
    • ASP.NET
    • Vector Search
    • Azure Service Bus
    • Angular
    • C#
    • Python
  2. Summer 2025

    Software Engineering Intern · Rocktop.io

    Application development with a focus on generative-AI tooling. Built a VSCode extension, a standalone CLI, and an Azure DevOps extension that integrated an Angular front-end with C# and Python back-end services.

    • VsCode Extension
    • Azure CLI Extension
    • Angular
    • C#
    • Python
  3. SUMMER 2022

    Software Engineer · Viscosity NA

    Worked on Incorta Cloud data pipelines and analytics integrations using SQL and Python.

    • Incorta Cloud
    • SQL
    • Python

Education

Where I studied.

Degree

B.S. Computer Science

University of North Texas

Graduated

Summer 2025

GPA

3.3

Notable coursework
  • Software Engineering
  • Foundations of Cybersecurity
  • Algorithms
  • Software Testing & Empirical Methods
  • Systems Programming
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Programming Languages
  • Fundamentals of Database Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Digital Logic
  • Assembly Language
  • Linear Algebra
  • Calculus II

Contact

Let's get in touch.

I'm always happy to talk about software, interesting projects, or opportunities to build something worthwhile.