Nikolas is a polyglot developer coming from an iOS background but finding new homes in the JS and React / React Native worlds.
He graduated from University with a MSc in Information Systems. During his studies he worked for several companies such as SAP and also did some contracting work. He then spent 3 months at the Recurse Center in NYC to study functional programming techniques and subsequently worked as an iOS Instructor at Make School in San Francisco before he joined Graphcool in early 2017.
Nikolas tweets at @nikolasburk, and his website can be found here.
Talks I've Given
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GraphQL for Mobile Developers
Featuring Nikolas Burk
GraphQL is a new and open-source API standard that was developed by Facebook. At its core, it enables declarative data fetching and provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to RESTful APIs. Despite the fact that Facebook initially built GraphQL for their native mobile apps, it...
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Workshop: Diving into GraphQL, React & Apollo - Intermediate
Featuring Nikolas Burk
GraphQL is the successor of REST APIs and a declarative way to fetch and update data. This new paradigm is unlocking a completely new ecosystem turning frontend developers into superheroes.
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