Nicholas Cipollo
Principal Engineer at WHOOP
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Cipollo is a Principal Engineer based in Boston with nine years of focused experience building and leading mobile and backend engineering teams. He has progressed from hands-on Android and iOS development to directing mobile engineering and embedded architecture, then leading Android teams at Grubhub and senior technical leadership at WHOOP. Nicholas combines a deep product sensibility—designing OTA systems, voice control, and low-power embedded integrations—with strong delivery chops in release automation and DevOps, evidenced by contributions to the widely used ncipollo/release-action. He has scaled and coached cross-office teams, hiring top talent while driving architecture modernization with tools like Dagger2, RxJava, and Retrofit. Known for translating complex hardware and UX constraints into pragmatic software, he balances long-term technical vision with shipping resilient, user-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (8)
release-management10
typescript10
github-ci10
nodejs10
typescripts10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ncipollo/release-action
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
An action which manages a github release
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 27 reviews, 79 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on modifying and improving the release management action. Their contributions include renaming files, fixing typos, adding retry mechanisms for artifact uploads, and updating dependencies. They also added functionality to handle discussion categories and implemented changes related to handling drafts and prereleases during updates. Furthermore, the user made changes to build and dependency management.
release-managementrelease-automationcontinuous-integrationgithub-releaseartifact
ncipollo/actions-playground
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
Playground for testing actions
Contributions:38 releases, 4 PRs, 300 pushes in 5 years 7 months
testingtypescriptplaygroundjest
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