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Nicholas Simmons is listed as Head of Engineering at Nuvocargo, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Nicholas Simmons.
Nicholas Simmons previously worked as Vice President of Research and Development at Nuvocargo and Director of Engineering at Shopify. Nicholas Simmons holds Executive Education, Leading Product Innovation from Harvard Business School.
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Software developer - I love technology and have been interested in computers for most of my life. My passion for building software to solve real world problems has been present from the day I started to write code as a youth.Generalist - I am a strong believer in being versatile. I have worked with many different languages, frameworks, operating systems, and platforms throughout my career. Leader - Developing a compelling vision, building motivated and collaborative teams, and coaching people to help them stretch to new levels. This is how I deliver impact far beyond what I am capable of on my own.
Listed skills include Javascript, Ruby On Rails, C#, Amazon Web Services, and 4 others.
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Vice President Of Research And Development
Head Of Engineering
Responsible for building Nuvocargo's platform and creating a world-class engineering team.
Sep 2022 - Dec 2023
Director Of Engineering
Responsible for expanding and maintaining features of Shopify's core product offering. Focused on things that help merchants go from starting on Shopify to getting their first sale. My area encompassed 4 sub areas each with multiple teams. Built a strong leadership team with high autonomy and a culture of collaboration. Was also the engineering leader for.
Aug 2019 - Aug 2022
Senior Software Development Manager
Founded and grew the Merchandising group to 2 teams of 8 developers each. Established a clear vision for the team, took ownership of a legacy part of the codebase and worked on improving the area for the long term while adding new functionality.Identified and investigated a significant performance issue, whose fix resulted in a significant reduction of.
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Technical Lead
Led the investigation and development of a server side rendering solution for Shopify's admin web app, used by hundreds of thousands of Shopify merchants every day. Built frameworks and DevOps tools to ensure that the service would meet the strict requirements of a highly scalable, high traffic service that merchants rely on as a key part of their.
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Software Development Manager
Led an engineering team focused on incubating and launching potential moonshots for Shopify. Products delivered include:Sello - A new commerce mobile app for aspiring merchants. Worked with the team to design and build a custom hybrid mobile framework. The app was eventually sunset after a lack of product market fit. Technologies: iOS and Android - custom.
Sep 2014 - Jan 2017
Senior Developer
Launched a rewrite of the store management interface for merchants, as well as actively contributing to the open source framework created at Shopify to build it - BatmanJS. After deciding to move away from BatmanJS, led the effort to move to a simpler front end solution that relied mostly on Rails and Turbolinks. The team shipped the complete rewrite in.
May 2013 - Sep 2014
Senior Software Engineer
Backend architect for game-specific and platform services. Responsible for design and development of complete end-to-end services; including technology decisions, DB schema, application logic, and infrastructure requirements.Provide technical guidance and leadership to a team of in-house developers and outsourcing partners. Act as a point of contact when.
Nov 2011 - Mar 2013
Adjunct Lecturer
Developed a new course for the Computer Science department at DigiPen titled "Introduction to Online Game Architecture". Topics included TCP/IP, HTTP, SOAP vs. REST, SQL and NoSQL databases, scalability and security.Researched material, prepared course content and slides, created assignments and course project.Provided 3 hours classroom instruction and 1.5.
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
Software Engineer Ii
Shipped titles: Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition (iOS)Designed and built a scalable back-end infrastructure for mobile social games in 9 months, including a stateless RESTful game server and Facebook integration via Graph API.Designed and implemented a consistent, decoupled game state and server communication layer in the mobile client app.Created a game.
May 2010 - Oct 2011
Software Developer
Developed new features for a large scale security solution (video surveillance, access control and license plate recognition).Implemented an event processing service for Genetec's AutoVu license plate recognition service. Increased resource efficiency by using less threads and memory, while also improving throughput.Integrated third party access control.
Oct 2007 - Apr 2010
Software Qa Analyst
Shipped 3 major releases of Omnicast video surveillance product, as well as the first release of access control system - Synergis, using exploratory and scripted testing techniques.Led development effort of automated Omnicast installation testing using TestPartner; Testing effort was reduced from several man-days to man-hours.Streamlined reporting process.
Sep 2003 - Sep 2007
4 education records
Nicholas Simmons education
Executive Education, Leading Product Innovation
Harvard Business School
Executive Education, High Potentials Leadership Program
Harvard Business School
M.Eng, Information Systems Engineering
Concordia University
B.Compsci, Software Systems
Concordia University
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What company does Nicholas Simmons work for?
Nicholas Simmons works for Nuvocargo.
What is Nicholas Simmons's role at Nuvocargo?
Nicholas Simmons is listed as Head of Engineering at Nuvocargo.
Where is Nicholas Simmons based?
Nicholas Simmons is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada while working with Nuvocargo.
What companies has Nicholas Simmons worked for?
Nicholas Simmons has worked for Nuvocargo, Shopify, Lucasarts, Digipen Institute Of Technology, and Electronic Arts / Playfish.
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Nicholas Simmons holds Executive Education, Leading Product Innovation from Harvard Business School.
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Nicholas Simmons is listed with skills including Javascript, Ruby On Rails, C#, Amazon Web Services, Mysql, Node.Js, Swift, and Team Building.
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