Nick Solter

Nick is a hands-on engineering leader who has spent most of his career in digital health and education. By day he's a technical lead at Rosetta Stone, where he's leading a ground-up rewrite of the consumer app on mobile and web. He has worked as everything from developer to CTO, at startups and at large companies.

Outside of work, Nick runs Nimbus Peak Solutions, a one-person app studio. He builds apps for problems he has had himself and takes on contract work for clients. He also co-hosts The Dyslexia Journey, a podcast and YouTube channel that started with his own family's experience and now reaches tens of thousands of families (320K+ YouTube views, 57K+ podcast downloads). He also advises early-stage startups on architecture, hiring, and technical strategy.

In his day jobs he has shipped web, iOS, and Android apps. A few of them are in the App Store:

Nick is a co-author of Professional C++ and OpenSolaris Bible, has taught programming at the college level, and holds several patents. He mostly works in React Native, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.

Nimbus Peak Solutions is an independent app studio in Boulder, Colorado. Nick started it to build software he wanted and couldn't find. Each app begins as something he needed himself.

Shipped products include Nimbus Migraine, a migraine tracker for finding triggers and spotting patterns, on the web and on iOS and Android; I Was There, a keepsake app for the concerts you've been to, on the App Store and Google Play; Bankrolled, a web app that traces the money behind the candidates on your ballot; and Name Politics, which shows where first names fall on the political spectrum.

The studio also does client work, building apps and backends for other teams and advising founders. The services page has the details.