▼ 👤 about me

nick ly

computer engineer / software developer

passion: scalable and secure software focus: full-stack, devops currently: director of operations @ the soaring eagles (non-profit)

▼ ⚡ things im good at

JavaScript/TS

React/Next.js

Astro

DevOps/CI-CD

MongoDB/Redis

Python

C++/C

▼ 📁 my projects!!

2026

Enterprise CRM/ERP - The Soaring Eagles

Astro/ReactStripeNode.jsFull-Stack

Full-stack operations suite integrating CRM, automated accounting, and team logistics.

Engineered a comprehensive application stack handling non-profit operations from end to end: • CRM & Client Communications: Streamlined client interactions for sales representatives, featuring client information tracking and automated invoice generation with Stripe payment processing. • Automated Accounting: Centralized financial operations into a dedicated system supporting automated filing generation and streamlined reimbursement workflows. • Team Operations Portal: Built an internal dashboard for performers and crew to track real-time show statuses, register for upcoming performances, access training schedules, and submit operational requests.

2025

MakeTheSeat / MakeTheCut.ca

RedisMongoDBNode.jsDevOps

Unified architecture with CI/CD pipelines and secrets management.

Overhauled the entire backend infrastructure by consolidating the multiple APIs into one single API layer. Used Redis caching alongside MongoDB to improve database efficiency at scale allowing for performance even during peak times of the season (course selection), set up CI/CD pipelines, and established secure secrets management over Infisical for production deployments.

2025

The Soaring Eagles — thesoaringeagles.ca

Astro/ReactSSG

Website on Astro for fast SSG

Designed and built a modern company website (for the non-profit I am a Director of). Leveraged Tailwind and static HTML for tiny web artifacts, with nice interactivity built in with React components in Astro Islands. Optimized LCP to increase page load speeds, and achieved near-perfect Lighthouse scores overall. Optimized site content for SEO, placing it near the top of Google searches in relevant search terms.

2020

Pentesting

SecurityDiscord

I found flaws in a platform I use

Reverse engineered the desktop Discord client in order to find and report vulnerabilities through bug bounty with responsible disclosure, including vertical and horizontal escalation, and XSS vulnerabilities. Also discovered vulnerabilities related to stickers when first introduced that enabled for crashing other users' Discord clients.

2019

Discord Bot Development

Node.jsDiscord.JSScale

Discord bots across 1,000+ servers. Moderation, fun, server management all in one place.

Built Discord bots with organic growth to over 1,000 servers through referrals and marketing. Built for scalability right from the start with sharding over multiple nodes, rate limits, database optimization with MongoDB and Redis caching, and a modular and maintainable codebase.

▼ 📡 connect with me

⌘ GitHub ◉ LinkedIn ✉ Email ◈ My lion dance team

▼ >_ terminal

visitor@nickly.me:~$

# what is this???

this is like, NOT bash, again its *not bash*, like, what would it even run on

of course it's in your browser, but you do have a home directory and you can do basic stuff

supported shell commands:

- `ls` with most flags, including `-a`, `-l`, `-h`, `-R`, `-t`, `-S`, `-r`, `-1`, `-F`, and `-d`
- `cd` and `pwd`
- `cat`, including stdin mode with `cat` and ctrl-d
- `touch`, `mkdir`, `rm`, and `echo` with `>` or `>>`
- `vi` with a limited featureset
- `nano` with most features
- `clear`

special commands that i threw in are listed by `help`:

- `theme`, `linkedin`, `github`, `email`, `pdfexpand`, and `neofetch`

- i also use some of these commands in my personal life (at school) so don't mind the weird ones...

try `help` for the portfolio commands, or run `nano README.md` (or vi) to edit this file.

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