Conrad Nied
Technical Lead at Unicode Consortium
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConrad Nied is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building user-centered web frontends, server-side clients, and machine learning–scaled solutions that tackle socially impactful problems. He blends software engineering with anthropology and linguistics, recently driving internationalization work at Meta and contributing to Unicode’s CLDR and language-demographics efforts for Translation Commons and UNESCO. Conrad leads small multidisciplinary teams, architects platforms that bundle code, tooling, and protocols, and prioritizes transparency, autonomy, and empathy in product decisions. He’s the lead engineer on Language Navigator, a visualization tool for exploring language relationships, and has a track record of turning research-grade analyses into production systems. Based in Seattle, he’s transitioning from engineering leadership toward formal managerial roles where he can support individual contributors while shaping product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Boston University
English, Italian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
data-repository10
locale10
unicode10
cldr10
icu10
connectivity4
network-flow3
equivalence2
visualization2
normalization1
markup-language1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
conradarcturus/LiteratureGraph
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
conradarcturus/GPS
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 2 months
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