Drew Nichols
VP Of Engineering at LiftForward
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDrew Nichols is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years scaling product and platform teams, currently serving as VP of Engineering at LiftForward where he oversees BNPL subscription platform engineering across 15+ countries. He began his career as an Enterprise Java architect and evolved into a hands-on manager and Agile evangelist—an early adopter of weekly planning and prioritized feature backlogs that he later formalized as Scrum practices. Drew has led cross-functional teams at companies from TheLadders to Disney, shipping consumer-facing sites, internal tools, and mission-critical ecommerce and streaming systems. Known for delivering on-time, under-budget projects with minimal post-launch defects, he blends technical depth (Spring/Hibernate, JEE) with pragmatic product-driven delivery. Based in Portland, he pairs operational rigor with coaching, helping teams adopt Build–Measure–Learn cycles to turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, B.S., Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Connecticut
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (83)
api10
coercion10
rails-api10
ci-server10
yodlee9
rest9
ruby9
ember-cli9
rest-api9
command-line-utility9
npmjs8
javascript8
bower8
ruby-on-rails8
heroku8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
liftforward/yodlee-icious
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 99 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 2 months
ishyodleerubygemrest
drewnichols/dotfiles
May 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:27 pushes in 6 years 9 months
linuxdotfilesminedotfilezsh
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.