Nick Chapman
Principal at Less Is Better
Lafayette, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Chapman is a product and engineering leader with nearly two decades building consumer and AI products, currently focused on generative AI at Mozilla and principal-level product work through his firm Less Is Better. He has led cross-functional teams at scale—from founding startups to serving as CPO at Tempest where he unified privacy apps and doubled company size, and as VP of Product for Pocket where he shifted strategy toward discovery and institutionalized OKRs. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, Nick rose through engineering roles at Mozilla to lead Firefox product efforts like New Tab, search, Sync, and Firefox for iOS, and helped create Firefox Accounts and experimental platforms. He’s known for coaching and career-building: setting levels, pay scales, and hiring processes that let teams thrive while shipping meaningful features for hundreds of millions of users. Based in Lafayette, California, he blends startup grit with enterprise rigor and a clear belief that software development should be fun and rewarding. A less obvious thread through his career is a consistent focus on search and content discovery—across web, browser, and AI products—which informs his current work on AI-driven user experiences.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (75)
mercury10
thunderbird9
firefox-webextension9
parser9
chaos8
firefox-addon8
controlled8
low-level7
mozilla-firefox7
api7
firefox7
mozilla7
gecko7
esoteric-language6
programming-language6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bipbopme/meet
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:34 PRs, 111 pushes, 38 branches in 1 month
mozilla/universal-search-content
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 38 PRs, 52 pushes in 8 months
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