Nick Ashley

Technical Co-Founder / Lead Software Engineer

NurseRecruiter.com | 2008 - Present (17 Years)

• Built and scaled a job board and lead generation platform for the travel nursing industry, driving product strategy from MVP to long-term growth. Responsible for all infrastructure and technology decisions. Company has been fully remote since inception.
• Built the initial application using a custom-built PHP framework, then rebuilt it on Laravel 5 in 2015. The codebase has been kept up to date with the latest version of Laravel to reduce technical debt.
• Optimized database performance through query tuning, indexing, and caching strategies, improving load times and minimizing infrastructure costs.
• Designed and maintained cloud infrastructure on AWS, leveraging EC2, S3, RDS Aurora, and Route53 for DNS management.
• Implemented core features including subscription payments via Stripe, data integrations with client systems, scheduled tasks and queues for async processing, Slack notifications, live chat, and complex job recommendation queries.
• Designed and developed a responsive front-end using TailwindUI, with Livewire and AlpineJS for interactivity.
• Mentored junior developers on MVC architecture, Laravel best practices, and how to write testable and maintainable code.