Summary
Nick Seegmiller is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling consumer-facing products across VR, games, mobile, web, and smart home domains. Currently Director of Engineering for Virtual Reality at Axon, he previously led core game engine teams at Meta’s Horizon Worlds and ran large cross-functional organizations for Amazon across Prime Gaming, Amazon Care, and Alexa Smart Home. He specializes in mentoring engineers, hiring at scale (250+ interviews at Amazon), and delivering complex systems spanning rendering, networking, mobile clients, and backend microservices. Nick combines hands-on technical roots in C/C++, Java, and web technologies with a strategic focus on performance, reliability, and customer experience. Based in Seattle, he’s equally comfortable shipping game mechanics and architecting secure telemedicine and e-commerce services — a leader who still enjoys coding and tool-building behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah