Summary
Nick Kaimakis is a strategy-focused Senior Product Manager with nine years of experience pairing hands-on engineering chops with product leadership across consumer mobile, fintech, and shop-atainment. He has led early product strategy and shipped three products from inception to launch while personally designing and developing three native iOS apps, blending UX obsession with engineering execution. Nick’s background spans startups and large companies—Google, Acorns, NTWRK, and Deepgram—where he’s driven discovery, personalization, conversational AI, and growth-focused product roadmaps. He brings measurable research rigor from prior NLP and academic projects (improving Q&A model accuracy and building compact domain models) to commercial product work. Based in Santa Monica, he mixes entrepreneurial curiosity and travel-fueled perspective with a bias for efficiency and cross-functional team alignment.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Business Administration at University of Southern California
Wauconda High School
Spanish, c++, python, html/css, java, javascript, sql, swift, kotlin