Graham Mcnicoll
Co-Founder & CEO at Plato
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGraham Mcnicoll is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16 years of experience building high-traffic consumer products and developer tools from the ground up. As Co-Founder and CEO of GrowthBook (YC W22) he leads the open-source feature flagging and A/B testing platform, contributing hands-on front-end work to make experiment analysis and flagging genuinely usable. Previously he scaled Education.com from a small team to a multi-million user, profitable business—serving tens of millions of page views—while growing engineering 5x and instituting a culture of data-driven product development. He pairs product and technical leadership—having been CTO, VP of Product & Engineering, and systems architect—with practical operational chops demonstrated during crisis-driven traffic spikes. Early in his career he co-founded a nonprofit and launched pioneering offline/online email infrastructure to expand internet access in Tanzania, reflecting a long-standing commitment to impact-driven technology. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he balances strategic vision with day-to-day product craft and an avid love of backpacking and photography that occasionally shapes his design sensibilities.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Swahili
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Github Skills (15)
flags10
experiment10
uid10
typescript10
exp10
javascript10
feature-flags10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
feature-toggle10
testing10
videojs6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
growthbook/growthbook
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Open Source Feature Flagging and A/B Testing Platform
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:160 reviews, 196 commits, 458 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Graham primarily contributed to the front-end of the GrowthBook platform by implementing and enhancing UI components, particularly within the experiment analysis and feature flag pages. Their work included adding interactive elements like the display of graphs and charts, and also improvements to the user interface through the addition of colors and user-friendly components such as a "get started" walkthrough. They also worked on improving the visual experience, adding tooltips, and modifying text for clarity.
operationdcosstorekitremote-configrollout
Auz/FancySortable
May 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 1 month
drag-and-dropsortinglistssorting-interfacedrop
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