Nicholas Walker Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

Aither Technology is a CTO consulting and software development company. We hire and work with only highly exceptional engineers and we challenge them with great opportunity. Our high standards ensure that we deliver only the finest quality product to our customers.

Austin, Texas, Us

After serving as the full-time CTO of LivingTree for over seven years, I moved to a fractional consulting CTO role to focus on growing Aither. LivingTree is in great technical hands with the team Aither built for them.

Austin, Texas, Us

LivingTree offers a SaaS social networking, communication, and fundraising platform targeted at K-12 public schools. The LivingTree product suite serves over 1 million users around the world.• Lead all development, QA, and production operations for three products and over 1 million users• Established multiple agile engineering teams on 3 different continents• Performed technical due diligence for the acquisition of two other SaaS platforms – ClassMessenger and EdBacker – and led architecture integration work post-acquisition • Reduced AWS costs 700% while at the same time scaling user base from 30,000 to 1 million• Optimized the original LivingTree product prototype to run at scale; Web site performance increased by 4x, and database utilization was reduced by 15x• Oversee the development and ongoing releases of the LivingTree iOS and Android applications• Lead the technical integration with partner EdTech products from Aeries and Edlio• Architected and managed the development of integrations with 3rd party tools from Clever (data integration), Twilio (SMS, phone), Bandwidth (SMS), PayPal (payment processing), and Stripe (payment processing)• Technology experience: AWS, PHP, Python, EC2, multi-AZ MySQL RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, ElasticCache(Memcached, Redis), CloudFront, SES, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, MongoDB, neo4j, iOS, Android, and OpsWorks (Chef)

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Sales Engine is a B2B marketing services company that provides a standardized end to end solution for list database development, content creation, and marketing campaign execution. Sales Engine was a large services partner of Manticore Technology and the two businesses executed a strategic merger.• Oversee all technical operations of a $5M dollar, 50 employee SaaS/services business• Manage a 10 person engineering team, local and offshore, including DBA’s, .NET developers, and QA • Company achieved #1553 on the 2012 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies

Houston, Texas, Us

Helped HP reinvent itself into a cloud computing company. HP Cloud is the HP business unit responsible for the HP Helion brand, HP's cloud computing platform built on the open source software projects, OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.• Responsible for directing efforts of the engineering team building the application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) piece of the HP Helion Development Platform• Manage a third party partner relationship with ActiveState, the manufacturer of Stackato, a Cloud Foundry based application PaaS solution• Researched and developed business case, performed competitive analysis, compiled feature backlog, built roadmap/project timeline, presented to HP Cloud senior management• Technology experience – Linux, MySQL, OpenStack, open source software licensing, Java, Ruby, PHP• Presenter at OpenStack Atlanta 2014: Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, and the Enterprise Developer

Chief Technical Officer (2/2009-5/2012)President (5/2001-2/2009)Manticore Technology produced a cloud SaaS product for B2B marketing automation. Product included lead database functionality, high volume email creation/delivery/tracking, web forms hosting, and CRM integration with multiple vendors. As the business founder and leader, I was responsible for Product Management and Technology Development.TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT• Oversaw the development of company’s core SaaS product, a high availability distributed three tier cloud application using Microsoft .NET technology, including a web based UI, a common middleware layer, and a SQL Server data base architecture• Responsible for managing a 12 person engineering and operational team (local and offshore) including DBA’s, .NET developers, and QA personnel• Established agile/scrum engineering processes and guidelines that substantially increased the speed and predictability of our development team• Designed, built, and managed a $.5M, three terabyte, high availability public/private cloud infrastructure and data warehouse• Software development – C#, VB.NET, C++, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, Web Services, SQL Server 2005/2008, HTML/CSS, JavaScriptPRODUCT MANAGEMENT• Drove twenty major product releases over the span of twelve years resulting in business growth from no revenue to 25 employees and multimillon dollar annual recurring revenue • Analyzed competitive landscape to establish product pricing, positioning, messaging, and feature requirements• Interfaced directly with partners, customers, and prospects to understand their business needs and to help define product direction• Established priority of new product features, enhancements, and bug fixes to define product road map and backlog• Built out key technology partnership with SalesForce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Oracle OnDemand CRM to open up distribution channels that drove 90% of revenue

Austin, Tx, Us

Organized, composed, and taught weekly technical lab sessions for 180 MBA students using 120 pages of co-authored, original lab session material. Labs instructed students on programming topics such as HTML, ASP, Visual Basic, ODBC, and SQL.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship And Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aerospace Engineering