I am David Novicki,
builder of things

I am a motivated and driven software engineer with years of experience in full stack development and team collaboration. I strive to never stop learning, diversify my knowledge and experience, and work through tough problems. I emphasize the never ending importance of consistent growth and make it my priority to build scalable and quality products. I am a technologist who chases new technology to better solve today's tough technical challenges.

Skills: webpack, grunt, gulp, npm, yarn, webrtc, web performance, babel, bower, nodejs, reactjs, vuejs, angular, react native, sass, less, postcss, serverless, expressjs, typescript, es6, es7, html, css, indexdb, mongodb, sql, mysql, aws

Work Experience

My role as the Video Care Experience Lead where I strive to influence my organization and team to build robust customer-centric frontend experiences, creating native feeling web applications, measuring, quantifying, and improving overall Video call quality, and generally improving overall experiences in the browser.

• Developed new process improvements to aid in web application performance benchmarking, monitoring, and regression tracking
• Formulated proposal and design process for Frontend teams
• Evaluate and maintain Application Security threat models
• Colloborate with Design, Product, and Business Development teams on new features and usability enhancements
• Designed and implemented middle-teir backend service consumed by all Frontend clients
• Support and develop with cross functional teams and stakeholders
• Design both Front-end and Backend services
• Enhanced Developer Experience and best practices
• Maintain Operational Excellence support by following and contributing to Amazon's on-call best practices
• Developed new Video Architecture and was listed on Pending Patent: P64303-US01

VueJS, React, GraphQL, TypeScript, NodeJS, Serverless, AWS, AWS Cognito, WebRTC, ElectronJS, Java, and Vuex.

My role was planning, designing, and implementing multiple web based platforms with focus on robust and scalable systems.

• Moved 90% of microservices to serverless to cut Cloud Services cost by 85%
• Increased SEO by 60% by moving to an Isomorphic/Universal design
• Added support for offline capabilities using Service Workers
• Increased Lighthouse score by 50%
• Interviewed, trained, and hired company's first Engineering team

ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, AWS, Redux, StripeJS, AngularJS, and ElasticSearch.

My role was to be a contributing member to the web development team and to build mass data translating and reporting tools.

• Increased UX/CX by integrating Ajax services.
• Converted sites to be responsive and mobile friendly
• Optimized SQL queries for faster and larger reports
• Built large data translation tools for mass third party data imports

ASP.NET, Javascript, MySQL, SQL, and IIS.

Recent Work

Goodbye Electron, Hello Desktop PWAs

Okay maybe I am jumping the gun on this but this is some exciting news to say the least!...

Serverless Micro-services

Many of us cringe at the cost of our cloud hosting fees...

PWA Asset Caching Strategies

Determining your caching strategies for assets in your PWA can be somewhat of a ‘rabbit hole’...

Measuring Web Performance Tools 101

Measuring performance is a tricky feat. and can sometimes be a tad overwhelming finding out where to start. I have compiled a list of tools...

React Isomorphic/Universal Apps w/NodeJS

When it comes to Single Page Applications SEO becomes a common annoyance...

“Work It” featuring Service Workers

Service Workers are gaining some serious traction and their role in Progressive Web Apps is a crucial one...

Web Components, Web's Dirty Secret

Okay maybe not a secret…Web components are awesome and just not used as often as they should be. Sometimes we grab on to a framework...

GraphQL Remote Stitching w/NodeJS

Micro-services have been gaining popularity because of their awesome architecture to modularize services and provide a movement away from monolithic applications...

Sac JS Service Workers

Service Workers are revolutionizing how our web applications feel in comparison to native applications...

Web Performance Metrics Everyone Should Care About

Web Performance metrics can sometimes be a bit arbitrary and diluted by sheer volume. It is important that we call out the ones...

Health 2.0 Presentation

My team won 2nd place at Google's Startup Weekend and were given the opportunity to present at Health 2.0.

Comstock's Startup of the Month

Dermveda was nominated 'Comstock's Startup of the Month' in December.

SacJS Serverless

Server-less applications can be a nightmare to maintain and organize...

Parking Lot Reservation Project

Parking lot reservation manager built on ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Web Sockets. This project was meant to run on 3 different iOT devices such as raspberry Pi's...

Anonymous Chatroom

A social experiment anonymous chatroom built on ExpressJS, ReactJS, Bootstrap, and Web Sockets. This project was deployed on Physical Web Beacons and used to strike up conversations with strangers.

Squiid Group Pay on React Native

Squiid is a hackathon project written in about 15 hours in React Native. I was responsible for writing the mobile application while my cohort wrote the restful api. Squiid is a group pay transaction application...