Jim Nist
VP Of Technology at Yardzen
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Nist is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of senior engineering and product leadership experience, now serving as VP of Technology in the Bay Area. He has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled complex platforms—cutting costs, improving reliability, and driving data-driven decisions—across consumer, hospitality, fintech, and e-commerce businesses. Jim excels at guiding migrations from monoliths to service-oriented architectures, integrating third-party systems, and aligning engineering with product and compliance needs. Known for pragmatic hands-on leadership, he has a track record of shrinking teams while boosting productivity and shipping resilient systems that support rapid growth and international expansion. With a background that blends fine arts and computer science, he brings a creative, systems-oriented perspective to solving hard technical and organizational transitions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Gonzaga College High SchoolBFA MFA Fine Art Computer Science English, BFA MFA Fine Art Computer Science English at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
development-machine8
api5
rest-api4
nodejs4
amplitude4
rest4
java3
sdk3
collaboration2
analytics2
android2
api-platform2
android-sdk2
postman2
lifecycle1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jimnist/wp-zurb-boilerplate
Jun 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
ngn33r/re-engineering
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 day
html-presentationframeworkpresentationpresentation-framework
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