Nick Bartlett is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering teams and AI-first platforms. As Co-Founder & CTO of Showrunner he shipped an AI-powered filmtech product into production and raised $4M seed, and in 2025 independently launched icdcodes.ai to 100K+ returning users and 275M+ organic reach. Previously he led product and engineering at Ironhack and Trilogy, helping scale offerings to tens of thousands of students and driving a platform to $100M+ ARR and a $750M acquisition, and earlier rebuilt high-traffic IBM web platforms and marketplaces. Hands-on across design, code, and delivery, he works with Unreal, WebRTC, GenAI, and TypeScript and contributes to popular open-source projects like Slack’s bolt-js by improving TypeScript safety and request verification. He combines operator-level execution with product intuition and a track record of shipping things that didn’t exist yesterday.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `bolt-js` framework by addressing TypeScript linting issues and implementing improvements in error handling and request verification within the `ExpressReceiver`. These changes included fixing undefined errors, enhancing formatting, and ensuring correct parsing of request bodies. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the timestamp validation process, incorporating checks for invalid timestamps and too-old timestamps, and added corresponding test cases to ensure robustness.
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 months
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