Nakita Mccool
Product Manager at Workday
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolNakita Mccool is a Product Manager with nine years’ experience building learner-focused platforms and scaling engineering capabilities, currently leading product at Workday from Dublin. She has a track record of turning user research into measurable outcomes—at Code Institute she drove a 25% uplift in coding-challenge completion through a UX-led redesign and cut assessment lead-times from 10 weeks to 2 via process automation. Equally comfortable in technical and people-facing roles, she has moved from software tutor and platform engineer to technical programme and product leadership, launching an internal careers pathway with 95% opt-in and shipping a replacement product under a three-month crisis timeline. Trained in Scrum, UX and product management, Nakita blends data-driven decision making with hands-on delivery and an eye for operational improvements that other teams adopt. Notably, she combines early-career strategy consulting experience with deep edtech domain knowledge, making her adept at aligning business goals with scalable learning experiences.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Product Master, Certified Product Master at Pragmatic InstituteCertified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Master at ScrumAllianceDFP Affaires B2 (Diploma in Professional French/Business), DFP Affaires B2 (Diploma in Professional French/Business) at Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris (Paris Chamber of Commerce)User Experience Design, User Experience Design at UX Design InstituteDiploma in Software Development, Diploma in Software Development at Code InstituteBachelor of Commerce - BCom, International Commerce with French, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, International Commerce with French, First Class Honours at University of Galway
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
kubernetes9
python9
jetbrains8
remote-development7
ide7
provisioning7
devcontainer7
gitpod6
vscode6
disposable6
edx6
theia6
code-review6
juniper5
editor5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nakitamccool/IndeedJobSearch_datavis
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
nakitamccool/blogsite-using-django
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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