Nick Day

I developed an analytics platform to track how and when users used Pfizer's in-house tooling. This included a small, easily integratable npm module to track each tool and a partner API and UI to capture and visualize a large amount of data being created.

I worked closely with many development teams for the various tools to help them customize their integration. The API required lots of optimization of endpoints, queries, and views to capture and query the large dataset quickly.

The React-based UI had several interactive visualizations to allow the management team to inspect and customize the data rapidly, e.g., interactive timelines for each user or grouping to see which tools were being used and when over arbitrary periods that could be years long.

While I worked at Metail, the primary product was a JavaScript plugin for clothing retailer's sites. This was a helper that followed the user around the retailer's site and allowed them to create a 3D version of themselves to see what clothes looked like on their body and receive recommendations on which size to buy.

I defined the architecture and led this plugin's front and middle-tier development. It was designed to use a single codebase to support retailer localizations, style, and branding customizations and work across their desktop, mobile, and native platforms.

I'm a co-founder and sole developer of The Club HQ, which aims to support grassroots sports clubs by providing a platform for them to create a modern website to manage their club and engage with their members. The site will soon support multiple sports and localizations.

A React-based site allows you to book well-known talent for your virtual events. I worked on all aspects of the front end, including pixel-perfect responsive views, auth, analytics, error-tracking, emails, performance, and unit and integration testing.

While at Metail, I led the front-end development for a collaboration project with ITV's This Morning. The standalone virtual fitting room we created was used on the live show every month to find a guest's outfit for a special occasion.

One of the hosts used the fitting room on a touchscreen, and viewers were invited to try to submit outfits for themselves as suggestions for the guest. At the peak, the fitting room supported over 5,000 concurrent users.

We were nominated for the 2014 BAFTA for Digital Creativity for this work.

CrystalEye was a tool I created while doing my Ph.D. to help me gather crystallographic data published in peer-reviewed journals. It started as a web crawler that automatically scraped this data from the journal articles before republishing them in a single collection on its website.

Later, I expanded the tool to convert the data to XML for easier processing, added RSS/Atom feeds to allow other researchers easy access to the data, and 3D visualizations and graphs.