Nick Doherty
sole engineer, co-founder, occasional designer. building Telescope.
Now
Open to frontend or full-stack roles, contract or full time. Building Telescope on the side. Contract work lives at Switchback.
Work
Co-founded Telescope, a member-funded network for people with taste. Discovery without algorithms. Places, products, and things to read, recommended by others in the network. I own all product engineering and built the platform end-to-end. Currently focused on bringing more curators in.
Dependency-free Web Audio API wrapper for adding programmatic UI sounds to web apps. Preset sounds, custom synthesis, and a clean API.
Conversational UI for designing sounds with plinq. Describe any sound, hear the result through a reactive orb.
Unified web app into cross-platform Expo codebase (web/iOS/Android) with platform-specific auth architecture; shipped in 12 weeks
Built checkout and rewards system powering 1M+ transactions; co-built React Native social app shipped to 500+ Testflight testers