Nicholas Walters Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California, Us

Executive leader of technology org for JF, member of executive leadership team. With a good team of 6 leaders, leading approximately 50 people in JF Tech in Operations, Engineering, QA, DevOps, and SRE. In Peakon/GPTW scores, my org consistently ranks either 1st or 2nd in the company.Driving adoption of Cloudflare-based edge applications for speed of delivery and customer experience, including enabling bypass of on-prem stack when needed to reach more aggressive timelines.Added B2B APIs to previously ecommerce-only team as ecommerce apps began selling third-party products, working closely with third-party partners. Driving modernization of slow APIs by utilizing event-driven systems and optimistic response patterns in both ecommerce and B2B APIs to provide responsiveness to both first- and third-party clients.Driving adoption of cloud-based DevOps with GitHub Actions, moving away from onprem bottlenecks.

El Segundo, California, Us

Executive leader of technology org for JF, member of executive leadership team, leading approximately 45 people in JF Tech. Drove generative AI vision at the executive leadership level for creative product imagery; ensured Tech org fully adopted AI assistance tooling and properly integrated AI into development & QA processes.Created job architecture based on SFIA 8 for Engineering org that was subsequently used by HR teams across all TFG member companies as the basis for full org-wide job architecture.In partnership with Data team, implemented customer-unique product recommendation algorithm as a membership highlight.Coordinated company-wide to migrate three brands from ColdFusion to React+API stack with ontime project delivery in just 11 months.Added React Native app to ecommerce offerings with barebones team using scrappy techniques to provide iOS and Android apps with very limited resources.

El Segundo, California, Us

Senior Director over Engineering and QA at JF Brands - JustFab NA and EU, ShoeDazzle, and FabKids - as well as cross-company React Migration project.Navigated RIF; became responsible for QA org; completed multi-year cross-company Bento Migration project.As part of the React Migration, created React Oversight Committee to enable cross-company collaboration on React leadership needs. Composed of the top React devs at each company, the ROC focuses on culture-based means of ensuring the right blend of developer experience, deliverability, and code quality is met.

El Segundo, California, Us

Director over JustFab NA and EU, ShoeDazzle, and React Migration (migrating all 5 TechStyle brands to a modern React stack simultaneously).Managed company split from one combined company TechStyle to 3 distinct companies. Became senior leader for Engineering in the new JustFab company.For three straight years, my best lieutenant was offered a leadership role in one of the other TFG companies, as it was widely recognized that those who learned how to lead from me were best positioned to go on to be leaders themselves.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Sr Manager over the JustFab NA and EU brands, as well as the ShoeDazzle brand. Approximately 20 direct reports, mixed between FTEs and contractors.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

JustFab EU Engineering Lead, developing features and functionality for all JF EU countries.

Working in a kaleidoscope of languages, led the creation of public websites and private systems that enabled customers to have the power of good custom software at an excellent price.

Responsible for all aspects of Web development. Led a 5-person team that developed most of the systems Lightyear used up until its end by forging good relationships with the Marketing group for the first time in Lightyear IT's history.