Christopher Nikkel
Senior Software Development Manager, Grocery Management Tech at Amazon
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Nikkel is a seasoned software leader with over 17 years of hands-on experience guiding telephony and cloud-native platforms from startup scale to enterprise reliability. Currently a Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon leading Grocery Management Tech, he blends strategic vision with practical engineering—having driven five generational architecture transitions at FreedomVoice that balanced technology independence, cost reduction, and feature expansion. He excels at growing early-career engineers into high-performing contributors by aligning individual ambitions with company goals and fostering transparent, metrics-driven delivery. His background spans telephony, SaaS, cloud computing, and lean/agile leadership, with a track record of building robust logging and monitoring systems that made large migrations seamless for customers. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he pairs a dual UC San Diego education in computer engineering and applied mathematics with a proven ability to scale teams and products to millions in revenue and tens of thousands of users. An uncommon strength is his focus on people-first momentum—treating career development as a lever for sustained business growth.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Mathematics - Applied Science, Bachelor of Arts Mathematics - Applied Science at University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California San Diego
English
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Github Skills (61)
busybox10
tooling10
composition10
rewrite10
jupyter10
animation10
core-library10
language-service10
dotnet10
vector-graphics10
intellisense10
inheritance10
clean-architecture10
visual-studio10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisNikkel/SharpVG
Dec 2015 - Dec 2022
Create SVG vector graphics in F#
Contributions:262 commits, 4 PRs, 213 pushes in 7 years 1 month
animationsvgcanvasvector-graphicsjupyter
ChrisNikkel/Biff
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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