Nick Dreckshage
Senior Staff Engineer at KOHO
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Dreckshage is an engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as Head of Web Platform Engineering at Wayfair where he leads roughly 40 engineers across multiple teams. His career tracks a steady rise through technical and management roles at Wayfair—from junior engineer and production designer to senior staff and now head—combined with entrepreneurial stints founding Changefol.io and co-leading HumbleSpark. Nick blends hands-on platform architecture and delivery with people leadership, driving large-scale web initiatives and cross-functional alignment in e-commerce contexts. Based in Chicago, he brings a background in political science and American studies, an uncommon lens that informs his pragmatic, user-focused approach to product and platform decisions. Colleagues know him for translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear operational strategies while maintaining an engineer-first culture.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, American Studies, BA Political Science, American Studies at The George Washington University
Github Skills (120)
javascript10
server-side10
stylesheets10
amd10
modal-dialog10
code-splitting10
commonjs10
wake10
style-loader10
es6-modules10
coffeescript10
css10
server-side-rendering10
webpack10
babel-plugin10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ndreckshage/roughdraft.js
Jan 2013 - Aug 2014
Quickly create an interactive HTML mock-up by auto sourcing lorem ipsum/images generators, with minimal html markup, and no server side code
Contributions:60 commits in 1 year 6 months
server-side
ndreckshage/isomorphic
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:75 commits in 2 months
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