Nicholas Manning

Drove early stage global product adoption for Google Play Games for PC beta, leading to 5MM downloads. Lead efforts to optimize mobile impressions and conversion rates on Google Play mobile surfaces in 160+ countries. Promoted healthy engineering culture across 6 person team with staff retention of over 83%. Contributed to product, UX and engineering strategy as a hands-on technical lead. Technology involvement: Android, Java, Kotlin

Engineering manager for account management microservices, enabling the organization’s transition to the cloud. Responsible for hiring, conducting quarterly performance reviews, coaching and cultivating healthy culture. Technical lead for organization’s initiative in Kubernetes as a service via fleet cluster lifecycle management. Technology involvement: Go, Rust, Java, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS

Products: Smalltalk: Techstars 2017 alumni. A conversational commerce platform, allowing brands to engage and sell to customers entirely over SMS or Facebook Messenger. Techstars 2017. Lead system design and core development of conversational, SMS based eCommerce experience. Swig: a social drink discovery platform for iOS and Android. Designed, architected and developed a social and photo sharing app for iOS, including backend.

Actify is a web and mobile platform that offers innovative "freetime activity" exploration in Germany. Actify fuses social, community based interaction with rich exploration features for finding the perfect local events for you in Berlin, Hamburg and Frankfurt Germany. Primarily responsible for hiring and management of a 12 member team spanning UX design, Backend, Android, iOS, QA and Project Management.

CityMaps is a New York based startup presenting a product that offers users a highly visual, social map. CityMaps offers its map for the web as well as iOS. Acquired by TripAdvisor in 2017. citymaps.com Lead iOS engineer, developing the product from the ground up. 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.

The North America regional office (arvato systems, a Bertelsmann company) acts as a successful implementation partner for high profile, global eCommerce rollouts using the Hybris technology. Hybris ranks in the industry as a top-tier eCommerce platform. Lead software development teams which specialized in front and backend technologies leveraging the SAP Hybris eCommerce Platform. Facilitated requirements gathering workshops (pre + post sales) for business and technical audiences.

Key contributor in the development of a multi-million dollar enterprise solution for EMI Music Publishing corporation utilizing conventional as well as Business Process Modeling (BPM) technologies. Development lead for project’s internal Business Process Modeling (BPM) team for the IBM Teamworks platform. Managed and delegated weekly deliverables for a four person New York City and London based team for EMI Music.

Developed web and mobile-based electronic medical record (EMR) software for long-term healthcare facilities. 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 plan and health assessment records. Utilized the .NET Compact Framework.

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. Implemented a web-based solution which facilitates the registration and management of 400+ participants for the annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Conference.