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Nick Frost

Engineering Manager

www.nfrost.dev nfrost.dev@gmail.com github.com/nfrostdev

Experience

Hippo Manager Software, Inc.

Engineering Manager | 2022 - 2025

  • Led the engineering team and managed AWS infrastructure, GitHub organization, and technical administration across the company.
  • Reduced AWS costs by over $6,000/month through infrastructure refinements upon promotion.
  • Migrated the entire local development stack and eligible AWS infrastructure to Docker.
  • Drove product direction, created Figma prototypes, and gathered feature feedback directly from veterinary clients.
  • Maintained the platform through end of life after acquisition by Shepherd Veterinary Software.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Technical Lead | 2017 - 2022

  • Shipped 11+ web applications end-to-end, spanning Vue.js front-ends, back-end APIs, data seeders, and CI/CD.
  • Replaced legacy institutional systems, including a department directory from the early 2000s and several manual administrative workflows.
  • Navigated complex technical challenges including multi-system authentication pass-through and cron-based data seeding from network-restricted Oracle data sources.
  • Ran requirement-gathering meetings across academic departments, HR, and faculty.
  • Collaborated with designers and back-end developers, bridging different problem-solving perspectives.

Notable Projects

The L.I.V.E. Outreach

L.I.V.E. Outreach (nonprofit)

Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Keystatic, Cloudflare

Built and launched a full nonprofit website with an in-browser CMS, automated social share cards, structured data for search and AI discoverability, and a 100/100 accessibility score on every page. Runs on nonprofit-eligible tiers for approximately $15/year.

Hippo Manager 2.0

Hippo Manager Software, Inc.

Vue.js, Laravel, GraphQL, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Tailwind CSS

Cloud-based practice management platform for veterinary clinics covering billing, scheduling, client management, reporting, and treatments.

Skills

Languages

  • CSS
  • GraphQL
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • SCSS
  • TypeScript

Frameworks

  • Astro
  • Hugo
  • Laravel
  • Lumen
  • Nuxt
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vue.js

Infrastructure

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Apache
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker
  • Firebase
  • GitHub Actions
  • MySQL
  • Nginx
  • PostgreSQL

Tools

  • Claude
  • Figma
  • Git
  • Insomnia
  • Jira