Frontend Software Engineer
Production Vue 3 applications, responsive dashboards, and complex interfaces owned from architecture through release, with additional React project experience.
JavaScript · Vue · React · Playwright
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Software engineer, ready for my next team.
I’m Nicholas Bennett, a Baltimore-based software engineer available for full-time opportunities. I build responsive interfaces, JavaScript and Python applications, and integrations that help people get their work done.
Open to Frontend Software Engineer, Full Stack Software Engineer (JavaScript / Python), and Solutions Engineer roles.
01 / résumés & opportunities
Where I can contribute.
I’m looking for a full-time role on a team building useful software. Choose the résumé that fits your opening; each is available as a PDF.
Full Stack Software Engineer
JavaScript applications, Python/Django APIs, SQL, and external integrations. Experience modernizing legacy apps and delivering features from data retrieval to the interface.
JavaScript / Python · Django · Node.js · SQL
Full stack résumé (PDF)Solutions Engineer
Hands-on engineering backed by extensive technical support and consulting experience. I translate user workflows into applications, integrations, and clear technical solutions.
Workflow analysis · API integration · Troubleshooting
Solutions résumé (PDF)02 / selected projects
Different problems. Thoughtful software.
Artist website
OG Blacman
An artist website with dedicated desktop and mobile experiences.
Explore OG Blacman
Independent community project
Medium Talk
A conversation app I built for a public picnic I hosted through Meetup in a Baltimore park, helping strangers get to know one another.
Explore Medium Talk
Original tool / independent refresh planned
Kellogg Board Fellows Optimizer
Matching MBA talent to corporate board internships, optimally.
Explore Kellogg Board Fellows Optimizer
Independent tool / interface refresh planned
Poster Slicer
Turn an image into a larger poster printed across ordinary sheets of paper.
Explore Poster Slicer
DJ workflow tool
RekordBox Bass Notes
Profiles the bass characteristics of music and writes results directly into the RekordBox database, helping DJs identify tracks that SHAKE the dancers.
Explore RekordBox Bass Notes
Desktop app / in development
Dancefloor Bass Analyzer
A desktop app for exploring the sub-sonic characteristics of a DJ’s music library, built with React and Rust.
Explore Dancefloor Bass AnalyzerMore projects & experiments
More of my work across web apps, creative coding, data analysis, and developer tools. Explore the project links and source on GitHub.
Explore all 29 projects
MITRE ATT&CK Flash Cards
A flashcard app for studying MITRE ATT&CK techniques through synthetic Windows events and spaced repetition.
Tiny Goose Club
A website for a quiet creative meetup I organize in Baltimore, with event information, shared expectations, and RSVP links.
Cute QR Code
A Vue app that turns text and URLs into QR codes, with copyable text and downloadable PNG exports.
Walking Quests
A daily walking-quest app: pick a quest, mark it complete, and revisit past adventures through a calendar.
Inverso
A browser-based design tool that overlays text with colors computed as the inverse of the image underneath, for print-ready artwork.
Background Removal for Artists
A browser-based tool for cutting subjects out of photos and saving transparent PNGs, with all image processing on your device.
Black & White Image Tools
Python tools for converting images to black and white, creating transparent variants, and isolating dominant colors.
DTG Photo Mask
Image-processing tools that apply geometric transparency masks to reduce ink coverage for direct-to-garment and direct-to-film printing.
PixelSVG
A browser-based pixel drawing app with local documents, selection and paste tools, and SVG import and export.
Chrome Console ANSI
A client-side ANSI art inspector that decodes .ANS files and checks whether Chrome DevTools can print their escape sequences.
IFS Shirt
A fractal design tool with fern, Sierpinski, snowflake, and dragon patterns, adjustable colors, and PNG export.
Blindfolded Brain Dump
A free-association writing app that hides earlier text to keep you writing, with a visible tail and local browser storage.
Grid Surface Warper
An interactive grid-warping experiment with adjustable spacing, surface functions, and parameters.
Slugtoy
A full-screen particle-field visual experiment built with Vue 3 and Vite.
Beautiful Words
A browser-based typography experiment presenting quotations in decorative script.
Timewarp
An experimental digital clock exploring the question, “What even is time?”
BurningText
A Vue component that renders text with a dynamic fire effect using noise and simulated heat diffusion.
Voxel Fire
The classic demoscene fire effect rendered in 3D with voxels and Three.js.
Markdown Splitter
A command-line tool that turns a long Markdown file into linked HTML pages with a table of contents and syntax highlighting.
Spacey
A starfield paired with procedurally generated spacey music.
Subsonic Analyzer
A browser tool for uploading MP3 files and calculating their low-frequency energy in the 20–150 Hz range.
Music Analysis
Tools for exploring low-frequency energy in music, including browser visualizations and Python analysis of a DJ library.
Scrolls
Tiling SVG graphics for wallpaper and tattoo design.
Uber Analytics
Data collection and analysis exploring insights from 1.5 years of driving Uber in downtown Chicago.
Hexagonal & Triangular Graph Paper
A browser-based generator for printable hexagonal and triangular graph paper, exported as PDFs.
Emoji Bouquet
A tool for arranging emojis into bouquets and other patterns.
Tao Te Ching
English interpretations of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, presented as a reading website.
Fatal Car Crashes
An exploration of fatal traffic-crash data, with tools for converting and preparing records for mapping and analysis.
Image to ASCII
A tool for rasterizing image files into ASCII art.
03 / experience & approach
Engineering with the user in mind.
My experience spans cybersecurity software, university applications, technical support, and consulting. At CyberMaxx, I built security operations interfaces and customer reporting with Vue, Python/Django, and SQL, contributing to weekly production releases on an eight-person engineering team.
A long background in technical support shapes how I build: understand the workflow, ask useful questions, and follow problems through to a working solution. I’m looking to bring that approach to my next full-time team.
Outside work, I build community apps and music software. At 6′6″, I bring the “big” in Big Friendly Function quite literally.
How I work with a team
- 01Understand the users and the problem
- 02Agree on priorities with the team
- 03Build, test, and review
- 04Release, learn, and improve
Tools I work with
JavaScript, Vue, React, TypeScript, Python, Django, Node.js, SQL/MySQL, and Playwright. My independent projects also include Rust and desktop development.
I also use Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex alongside automated testing and code review.
04 / contact
Let’s talk about your team.
Hiring a Frontend Software Engineer, a Full Stack Software Engineer working with JavaScript and Python, or a Solutions Engineer? I’m available for full-time opportunities. Send me a role description and a little about your team, or get in touch with a referral.
nicholas@bigfriendlyfunction.com