Nick Cox
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Smartsheet
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNick Cox is a senior engineering leader with 13 years building enterprise SaaS at scale, currently overseeing 40+ engineers across product and platform teams at Smartsheet. He specializes in taking AI from concept to production to reduce customer effort and accelerate time-to-value, having authored the strategy that cut dashboard build time from ~90 minutes to under 5 via AI-driven creation and analytics. His background spans full-stack engineering, front-end architecture and high-throughput backend systems (20k req/s with 99.95% SLA), and he’s led migrations and performance work that materially reduced load on critical databases. A hands-on manager and coach, he restructures teams to lower overhead and deepen product focus while growing engineering managers and principal engineers. Outside Smartsheet he contributed front-end and UX improvements to the Wiki Education Foundation’s dashboard, reflecting a sustained interest in impactful open-source and nonprofit projects. Based in Seattle, he blends product strategy, applied AI, and organizational design to ship reliable systems in real-world environments.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School of Theology & PsychologyBA in French Language and Literature Minor in Linguistics, BA in French Language and Literature Minor in Linguistics at Metropolitan State University of Denver
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
jsx10
git9
user-interface9
css9
html9
react-router8
css-in-js8
testing7
mochajs7
yeoman6
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:558 commits, 13 PRs, 422 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on front-end development, implementing user interfaces and functionality within the Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system. Their contributions included adding new features, refactoring code, and improving the user experience. They also made changes to the user interface (UI) of the application, indicating some front-end development skills, and were involved in minor database changes. Their work improved the functionality of the training module and helped with course creation.
dashboardwikifoundationwikipedia
thenickcox/syllabize
Jun 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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