Summary
Lucas Nagle is a New York-based senior software engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling web applications. He has led backend and full-stack initiatives at WeightWatchers, turning around a CMS team, boosting developer productivity by over 30%, and driving data-driven UI optimizations that reduced homepage content by 60% and improved user retention. He modernized deployment practices to bi-weekly cadences and collaborated with DevOps to run services on AWS with Docker and Kubernetes. Earlier in his career he delivered critical front-end and platform work at Ameriprise, CHR, and other firms, including building a new dashboard used by thousands of financial advisors and mentoring junior developers. He is currently open to 3–6 month contracts and fractional work, bringing a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style that pairs technical depth with process improvements.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Public Administration, MA, Public Administration at University of North Dakota
BA, Political Science, BA, Political Science at Purdue University