Nick Kleinschmidt
Director Of Engineering at ClickUp
City of Superior, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolNick Kleinschmidt is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering at ClickUp. He combines hands-on system design and full-stack delivery with strategic product thinking, having led platform, analytics, and developer tooling teams at Lattice and cross-product collaboration efforts at Meta. Nick has a track record of turning complex integrations into measurable business outcomes—delivering an HRIS integration ahead of schedule, driving GraphQL federation and least-privilege data access, and improving reliability across distributed services. He excels at talent development and org design, moving between principal IC roles and senior leadership while still contributing significant code and architecture. Based in Superior, Wisconsin, he brings startup grit from his consulting days to large-scale product organizations, with deep experience in distributed systems, deployment sequencing, and developer workflows. An interesting throughline: he’s repeatedly combined product roadmaps with engineering rituals (canary testing, deployment sequencing, instrumentation) to accelerate adoption and reduce operational risk.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Bachelors of Science Computer Science and Mathematics, Dual Bachelors of Science Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (121)
dashboard10
apache-storm10
streaming10
storm10
apache10
java10
javax9
hapi9
big-data9
grpc-web9
twitter-bootstrap9
jquery-plugin9
graphql-schema9
nodejs9
bootstrap-multiselect9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
newbee/balanced-dashboard
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:37 commits in 1 month
kleinsch/storm
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javastormapache-stormapache
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