Nick Manning

About

Career Highlights

Co-founder and CTO of numerous pre-seed and seed-stage startups
- Held multiple co-founder roles leading product strategy, technical design and development in pre-seed stage startups
- Specialization in education, social and mobile products
Engineering leader for “big tech” companies, building out 0 to 1 products
- Google: tech lead and manager for multiple beta products in the gaming sector
- Capital One: manager of multiple teams responsible for bank critical account management services.

Providing impactful and positive leadership, fostering healthy team culture
- Being a technical engineering leader
- Mentoring others in their career and teaching technical skills
Technical design and building product
- Wearing many hats: technical design and contributing to products myself
- Leveraging a mix of legacy, practical tools but not shying away from the cutting edge
Driving product marketing and design decisions
- Diving in to product strategy and user experience
- Defining marketing approaches that adapts to and drives user adoption

Contributing to society by exploring exiting ideas and building useful products.
Working with others who love what they do.
Helping others with their careers, driving economic mobility and self-sufficiency.

At Google, I served as engineering manager and technical lead for over 3 years, contributing to multiple 0 to 1 products covering PC developer SDKs and go-to-market initiatives, leading to product adoption by hundreds of millions of gamers.
At Capital One, I lead engineers to scale the bank’s account caching services with Cassandra for millions of banking customers, as well as leading design for an in-house Kubernetes-as-a-service for developers, another 0 to 1 product.

CTO at Actify, a seed funded social mobile local startup in Germany. Built out hiring process, hired and ramped up initial team of 12, navigating mobile to backend scaling challenges.
Founder and author of instructional courses for engineers, Simple Git Course, seenickcode and Flutter Crash Course, scaling, building and marketing micro-products leading to over $2k MRR.
Co-founded Swig: "Instagram for drink enthusiasts". Raised over $600k in friend and family funding.
Co-founded Smalltalk, an SMS based conversational AI ecommerce product (Techstars accelerator).
Director of Mobile for CityMaps, later acquired by TripAdvisor.

Consulting, solution design and technical lead for for multiple $1MM+ projects for brands such as Reebok, Adidas, Benefit Cosmetics and TaylorMade.

My full resume can be found here.

I love connecting with new people. Feel free to reach out via the contact links below.