Summary
Nick Reavill is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 11+ years of experience scaling teams and systems from early-stage product discovery to high-growth operations. He has led end-to-end technical functions—mobile, web, backend, and devops—designing scalable financial transaction processing and AI-driven product evaluation while building hiring, review, and planning processes that endure. At Stitch Fix he grew engineering from a handful to 50+ engineers and introduced core infrastructure patterns still in use; at Commons he was the senior technical leader responsible for realtime observability and company-wide engineering practices. Known for aligning cross-functional stakeholders around measurable business outcomes, he combines hands-on architecture and coding with people strategy and process design. Based in San Francisco and currently Principal Technologist and CTO at StaffAI, he brings a rare blend of startup-era pragmatism and enterprise-grade system thinking grounded in a scientific background from Imperial College London.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at Imperial College London