Nick Mehr

About

Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with strong healthcare domain expertise, focused on modernizing regulated platforms for payroll, billing, and caregiver operations. Notably led a legacy Express.js billing platform migration to modular NestJS services that enabled same-day deployments and unblocked enterprise customer onboarding, while bringing deep experience in compliance, auditability, and production reliability.

Key Strengths

• Healthcare platform modernization in regulated environments
• Scaled enterprise healthcare systems with HIPAA compliance
• Led monolith-to-modular migration from Express.js to NestJS
• Improved release cycles from multi-day to same-day deployments
• Built production full-stack workflow platforms with React and Node.js
• Strong backend architecture for payroll, authorization, and audit workflows
• PostgreSQL performance tuning and schema/query optimization
• Reliable background job and batch processing with BullMQ
• Designed auditability, RBAC, and data integrity controls for compliance-heavy systems
• Connected technical platform improvements to customer onboarding and business growth
• Experience operating systems on AWS with Docker, GitHub Actions, and Datadog
• Pragmatic language selection across TypeScript, Python, Go, and React based on system needs

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