Nick Piegari Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Joined as the first Engineering Leader at a Media Analytics & Tech SaaS Start-Up with the goal of rebuilding our in-house engineering team and maturing the department. Recruited two Principal Engineers and directly.
• Directed a critical & time sensitive platform migration on an expedited timeline (a year reduced to 4 months); delivered a week early. Planned and executed migration by creating a simplified Product Workflow, breaking.
• Migrated our application infrastructure from ECS to EKS (Kubernetes)
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline & ephemeral test environments, significantly reducing developer cycle time.
• Integrated performance monitoring and error tracking software, which reduced our triage time by 80%.
• Managed the refactoring of a major component, which reduced our longest running process by 40% and significantly reduced incoming hotfixes & bugs.

Mcclean, Virginia, US

• Brought on as a Senior Engineering leader at an EdTech SaaS organization to bring maturity and direction to an engineering department facing the challenges of: projects behind schedule, high technical debt.
• Oversaw rewrite of our video platform from the ground up using service-oriented architecture along with in-house-built machine learning models for ensuring academic integrity.
• Led the building of a session packaging service that exports all PII data to our respective clients, complying with strict data privacy regulations.
• Reduced our AWS costs by 40% through detailed analysis, identifying low hanging fruit and prioritizing work to address our resource usage problems.
• Drove a 50% decrease in CPU utilization through analyzing database metrics and implementing changes to address our problem areas in database usage.

London, GB

• Directly managed two scrum teams, including eight engineers & four QA. Guided two people through Performance Improvement Plans and into roles within the department that better aligned with their skills. Rescued a.
• Implemented a data-caching strategy that significantly reduced the resource usage on our old platform, giving it an additional 3 years to scale, which provided us additional time for our new platform migration.
• Doubled our throughput by identifying an opportunity to change database technology, rescuing a behind-schedule platform migration project.
• Created a tool using event-driven architecture, synchronizing data between our platforms and simplifying a migration project.
• Identified and addressed a performance issue in a key platform integration which increased the performance of that service by 70%

• Hired as a Software Developer I and within four years was promoted to a Software Developer II and finally a Senior Software Engineer within the department. As a Senior Software Engineer, duties also included mentoring.
• Successfully migrated an on premises Monolith to a service oriented cloud infrastructure in Azure. Led the software and database architecture design process.
• Refactored crucial software components and implemented a new data access pattern which increased system performance by 50% and significantly reduced hotfixes by 80%
• Developed a strategy to cache user roles and permissions which decreased database load by 60%

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• During this role, I managed overall phases of software development lifecycle (SDLC) from requirements analysis to test-driven implementation.
• Played a vital role in the implementation of key development projects across multiple industries, including Media & Technology, Healthcare, Energy, Education, Consumer Goods, Retail and Insurance & Financial Services.
• Acted as a Technical Lead in high-profile client engagements for gathering/interpreting business requirements from a client and managing a team of developers.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for redesigning Fordham’s website to meet new compliance standards
• Write in HTML and JavaScript; work with Waves in an enterprise-class Web development environment
• Developing program in C++ with user friendly interface for sporting event technology
• Daily reports to supervisor