Nick Rackauckas
Engineering Manager at Kindo
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Rackauckas is an engineering manager and hands-on player-coach based in Los Angeles with 8 years of experience building full‑stack products and high-performing teams. He’s driven product and architecture at startups and enterprise-acquired companies, leading end-to-end features with React, GraphQL, and scalable backend systems while shaping processes from hiring to release management. At Skiff he took projects from 0→1 (including the Mail client) and delivered major retention and performance gains, and at Palo Alto Networks he led scalability and stability efforts that improved operational efficiency for large customers. Known for codifying frontend standards, mentoring engineers, and running on-call rotations, he blends pragmatic leadership with deep implementation skill. He studied Computer Science and Linguistics at UCLA and brings a systems-oriented curiosity that surfaces in both product roadmaps and developer experience improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (36)
langchain10
load-balancing10
llm10
nvidia10
openai10
gateway10
llmops10
azure-openai10
vertex-ai10
logging10
rust10
anthropic10
python9
vector-database9
ocr9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UsableMachines/forked-litellm
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format. Use Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Ollama, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, Replicate (100+ LLMs)
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 27 days
NRackauckas/nrackauckas.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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