software is art

I'm a full stack developer, with a bias towards back-end distributed computing.

Building distributed systems, backend tooling, and odd little side projects that turn into much larger ones.

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About

About Me

My name is Nicholas VanCise, and puzzles are my favorite pastime!

Currently I'm working on honing my craft, and building software I love while pursuing my dreams as a software engineer.

In addition to this, in my own time I dabble in emulator development, functional languages, data visualization, and infrastructure programming.

When I'm not studying or working on my personal projects I spend my time enjoying nature, reading science fiction, and working on classic vehicles!

Projects

Selected work.

A mix of projects I've built for work, fun, and for the sake of figuring things out.

Project index

Gbajs3 preview
Personal

Gbajs3

A browser-based Game Boy Advance emulator powered by a custom mGBA WebAssembly integration.

Gbajs3 preview

Personal project

Gbajs3

A browser-based Game Boy Advance emulator powered by a custom mGBA WebAssembly integration.

  • C/C++
  • React
  • PWA
Metroidvania Fangame preview

Personal project

Metroidvania Fangame

A native iOS metroidvania-style platformer featuring a custom engine, physics, boss mechanics, and gameplay systems.

  • Objective-C
  • iOS
  • Native
TheList preview

Personal project

TheList

A cross-platform list management application with fast regex-powered searching.

  • Go
  • Cross Platform
  • Fyne
Airflow Ingestion Cluster preview

Professional work

Airflow Ingestion Cluster

A distributed Apache Airflow platform orchestrating scalable, containerized IoT data ingestion pipelines.

  • Airflow
  • Celery
  • Python
Real-Time Ingestion API preview

Professional work

Real-Time Ingestion API

A horizontally scalable Go REST API for high-throughput real-time data ingestion.

  • Golang
  • REST
  • Horizontally Scalable
Quorum iOS Transpilation preview

Personal project

Quorum iOS Transpilation

Reintroduced native iOS compilation to the Quorum programming language toolchain.

  • RoboVM
  • iOS
  • Transpilation
IoT Data Visualizations preview

Personal project

IoT Data Visualizations

Interactive geospatial visualizations for large-scale IoT datasets.

  • Javascript
  • Python
  • Kepler
Terbine World Map preview

Personal project

Terbine World Map

An automated pipeline for collecting and visualizing global geospatial datasets.

  • Python
  • Selenium
  • R

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Feel free to message me through any of the means listed below! I'm always looking for constructive feedback and am happy to answer any questions.