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Nicholas Colman Manning

Summary

Passionate software engineering leader with 20+ years of experience driving innovation at both Fortune 100 companies and as co-founder of multiple startups. Proven ability to lead teams in developing and launching successful mobile-first, consumer-facing products.

Experience

Software Engineering Manager

Google LLC Boston, MA
2022-05-01 - Present
  • Hands-on people manager and technical lead for Play Games for PC initial launch, a 0 to 1 product.
  • Closely involved in product decisions and technical design for Play Store and Windows desktop experiences.
  • Key member in go-to-market strategy for mobile surfaces, resulting in 100MM+ onboarded users in first 3 months.
  • Fostered healthy engineering best practices and team culture norms, promoting two within first year.
  • Early core individual contributor to Google Play Games SDK for Windows. Initial roll out to 26MM+ users.
  • Technology involvement: Dart, Flutter, C#, C++
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Engineering Manager (Advisory Role)

SecureWorks US (Remote)
2021-11-01 - 2022-04-01

Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Accounts

Capital One Financial Corporation New York, NY
2019-04-01 - 2021-10-01
  • Engineering manager leading a team of 8, in building out a critical account cache layer serving millions of customers.
  • Lead design and beta launch of organization’s initial Kubernetes as a service product for organization's 12k+ engineers.
  • Actively involved in system design, scaling and troubleshooting Cassandra cluster initiatives and technical mentorship.
  • Lead a talented team that was awarded organization’s CIO Team of the Year, managing on-call, roll-outs and scaling.
  • Technology involvement: Go, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS

Co-Founder & CTO

Manning Software Labs LLC New York, NY
2017-02-01 - 2019-03-01
  • Ground up design and implementation of a custom multi-tenant, course creation platform for the web.
  • Monetized products, which included dozens of hours of tutorial videos, generating $2k MRR and 30k subscribers.
  • Designed marketing and product growth plan for child products fluttercrashcourse.com, simplegitcourse.com.
  • Technology involvement: Rust, Phoenix, Elixir, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform

Co-Founder & CTO

Swig Inc. New York, NY
2012-08-01 - 2019-03-01
  • Designed and built a conversational, SMS based eCommerce experience. Raised $600k in early funding.
  • Technology involvement: Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, iOS, React, API.ai, Ansible.
  • Designed, architected and developed a social and photo sharing app for iOS, including backend. Acquired in 2016.
  • Launched and scaled a social and taste based graph database powered recommendation platform.
  • Technology involvement: Go, Objective-C, Swift, iOS, Ruby, Nginx, Neo4j, Postgres, Aerospike.

CTO

Actify GmbH Frankfurt, Germany
2016-01-01 - 2017-01-01
  • Hired and managed team of 12 for a social mobile local activity discovery app for the German market.
  • Guided development team in a major overhaul of company's codebase to a Go based environment.
  • Responsible for technical vision, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), product management and delivery.
  • Technology oversight: iOS, Android, Go, Laravel, ElasticSearch, SQL, Ansible, AWS.

Director of Mobile Technology

CityMaps New York, NY
2011-12-01 - 2012-08-01
  • Lead iOS engineer, developing a social map for city explorers from the ground up. Acquired by TripAdvisor in 2017.
  • Drove all major mobile product decisions, including strategy of the product as well as user experience details.
  • Responsible for major product rollouts, Quality Assurance planning, and coordination with aggressive business goals.
  • Technology involvement: Objective-C, iOS.

Senior SAP eCommerce Solution Consultant

Bertelsmann AG, Arvato Systems North America New York, NY
2007-12-01 - 2011-11-01
  • Tech lead for eCommerce sites such as reebok.de, adidas.ca, benefitcosmetrics.com, taylormadegolf.com.
  • Lead solution design and facilitated pre/post sales requirements gathering workshops with senior client members.
  • Core member of the hiring team. Developed a comprehensive interview process for software engineer candidates.
  • Managed and mentored offshore and near-shore development teams.
  • Technology involvement: Ruby on Rails, Java, JRuby, JSP, Spring Web MVC, jQuery and RESTful web services.

Technical Lead

Axispoint Incorporated New York, NY
2007-01-01 - 2007-12-01
  • Development lead for a multi-million dollar enterprise royalty management solution for EMI Music Publishing.
  • Managed and delegated weekly deliverables for a four person New York City and London based team.

.NET Web and Mobile Engineer

eHealth Solutions Incorporated New York, NY
2006-04-01 - 2007-01-01
  • Lead developer for Windows Mobile based modules for the PocketPC platform, providing users wireless management of real-time, electronic medical record data. Long-term healthcare facilities used modules to track patient care plans and health assessment records.
  • Technology involvement: .NET, Palm OS, Javascript, .NET Compact Framework.

.NET Web-Application Developer

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2003-09-01 - 2006-04-01
  • Transformed a month-long honors course scheduling process down to a handful of days by developing a .NET web-application to university's 2,000+ honors inter-departmental faculty and students.