Nicholas Brown: Full Stack Software Engineer For Hire

Companies I worked for

Kompulsa - Place Finder: Software engineer. I built and am running this platform for businesses to list themselves and their products. Years: 2026 to present.
Ashenglow: WordPress Administrator (recovered it from a hacker upon joining the team). Years: 2026 to present.
Lunar Digital Assets: Software engineer and content writer. I also developed internal marketing tools, bots and assisted with their React website. Years: 2019 to 2026.
Cleantechnica: Content writer. Years: 2011 to 2015.
Kompulsa: Developer, SEO, editor, and content writer. Years: 2007 to present.

The languages, database systems, and frameworks I have the most experience with

Node.js 2015 to present

This is my primary framework, which I use to build bots, APIs, back-ends for websites, server apps/APIs for mobile apps, and servers for embedded systems projects.

Key Projects
Project	Stack
Kompulsa.com	WordPress.
Kompulsa.io - Place Discovery, Appointments And Listings	Node, Express, Handlebars, MongoDB.
Helpdesk/Customer Service Platform	Node, Express, MongoDB.
Appliance Finder	Node, Express, MongoDB.
Ashenglow	WordPress, Woocommerce.
Lunar Digital Assets Website	React, Node, Express, MongoDB.
Real-Time Exchange Rate Website	Node, Express, PostgreSQL.
KompulsaBot: Telegram/Discord Security	Node.js, Express, MongoDB.
Kormoda A1: Secure, E2E IoT/Remote Control Platform	Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi.
Plug And Play Solar System With Automatic Transfer Switch	C, EFM8UB1.
Nutrient Finder: Meal Planning Assistant	Node.js, Express, MongoDB.

Projects I Built Myself Without Front-End Frameworks, no AI, and no CSS libraries.
Project	Stack
Kompulsa.io - Place Discovery, Appointments And Listings	Node, Express, Handlebars, MongoDB.
Helpdesk/Customer Service Platform	Node, Express, MongoDB.
Appliance Finder	Node, Express, MongoDB.
Real-Time Exchange Rate Website	Node, Express, PostgreSQL.
KompulsaBot: Telegram/Discord Security (the account/administrator panel)	Node.js, Express, MongoDB.
Nutrient Finder: Meal Planning Assistant	Node.js, Express, MongoDB.
Kormoda A1: Secure, E2E IoT/Remote Control Platform (the browser control panel)	Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Raspberry Pi.

AI-built Projects
Project	Stack
Original Place Finder Prototype (abandoned and rewritten myself due to glitches)	Node, Express, Angular, MongoDB.
Story telling app (for a client)	Node, Express, MongoDB, Gemini API.
Social Travel App (for a client)	Node, Express, MongoDB.

Languages, Frameworks, Concepts
Language/Framework	Period
Express	2015 to present
PostgreSQL	2019 to present
MongoDB and Mongoose	2015 to present
MySQL	2011 to present
HTML	2007 to present
JavaScript, ES6	2015 to present
HTML DOM	2015 to present
CSS	2015 to present
Handlebars	2026 to present
React	2025 to present
C and C++	2009 to present
Delphi/Object Pascal	2003 to 2006
Java	2015 to 2017
Object-Oriented Programming	2015 to 2017

APIs I have experience with

LM Studio API.
OpenAI GPT API.
Google Gemini API.
Telegram Bot API.
Discord Bot API.
Slack Bot API.
Bitcoin RPC API.
Litecoin RPC API.
Ethereum RPC API.
YouTube API.
Google Sheets API.

Web development experience

Responsive, fast place finder platform for users to find the stores, restaurants and other places closest to them.
At Lunar Digital Assets: A responsive internal website for staff members that displays metrics for the top YouTube influencers in real time.
Responsive appliance finder website powered by Node.js, MongoDB, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
Ethereum transaction lookup website.
Live exchange rate website.
SEO: I got multiple clients' websites back in Google search results. I also recovered hacked clients' websites and got them reinstated in Google Search.
Andwar Pageant: I assisted with Woocommerce on this website.

Software engineering experience

Responsive customer-service web app on which users can create support tickets, and admins can reply to them from any device.
Cross-platform, responsive, turn-key inventory management and point of sale app with support for the most common bar code scanners and receipt printers built in.
Encrypted remote equipment control software that can be used to control appliances or other machinery from anywhere in the world.
Implemented ChatGPT in Telegram bots via the OpenAI API.
Cross-Platform Customer Support/Ticketing Software that can run both online an on a local area network.
API endpoints for Dogechain (for the retrieval of blockchain data).
Leveraged Natural Language Processing (a subset of AI) to interpret questions and respond automatically regardless of wording.

Bot development experience

KompulsaBot: A Telegram bot that automatically deletes phishing and other scam links and handles spam reports by removing scammers from chats automatically.
Telegram bot for CyberArena that awards points to users based on their activities in a chat room, and will ban users if they are reported to the bot more than 5 times for spam or scams.
Telegram bot for QuickSwap that awards users with engagement points for chatting, and it automatically answers questions (even without commands) in chats.

IDEs, operating systems, package managers, platforms, workflow utilities, and other relevant apps I am experienced with

Ubuntu 2005 to Present

I have been using Ubuntu as my primary operating system on my home PC for years, and I have been doing Ubuntu server administration for Node.js apps and WordPress websites since 2015.

Apache.
LAMP.
Let's Encrypt.
Matomo Analytics (self-hosted).
Google Analytics.
Google AdSense.
Debian (server environment).
Kubuntu.
Debian.
Linux Mint.
Fedora Core.
Arch Linux.
Gentoo.
Node package manager (NPM).
Node version manager (NVM).
AI: Gemma (ran it offline) and Gemini.
AI: Claude.
AI: Qwen Coder 30B (ran it offline).
Webstorm IDE (Jetbrains).
Android Studio.
PIP package manager for Python.
Slack (workspace and messaging tool).
Syncthing.
Samba.
Tresorit.
ESP32.
Arduino.
Raspberry Pi.
Vultr.
DigitalOcean.
Namecheap.
cPanel.
AWS S3.
AWS EC2.

Testing and other experience

Ran a Polygon (formerly Matic) node for test purposes before the network launched, and worked closely with the Polygon team/provided them with feedback to test it.
Ran an Ethereum node, Bitcoin node, and Litecoin node and have written apps that interact with their APIs and retrieve blockchain data.
I did search engine optimization for Kompulsa and Lunar Digital Assets, their clients.

Coding articles I have written

Status

Nicholas Brown. Software engineer at Lunar Digital Assets.