Nick Wade
Senior Engineering Manager (Messaging) at Slack
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Wade is a senior engineering manager and technical leader with 11 years of experience guiding cloud-native product teams across startups and enterprises, now leading core product engineering at Slack. He blends hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Go, Python and modern platform tooling with a strong background in platform engineering, developer enablement, and cloud-native architecture from roles at Pivotal, AMP Robotics, and Logikcull. Nick has driven critical backend and observability work—contributing to Cloud Foundry’s Loggregator logging system—and regularly participates in pre-sales, client-facing engagements, and cost estimation to align technical delivery with business outcomes. He’s passionate about solving organizational and people challenges, advocates non-negotiable work-life balance, and focuses on building balanced teams that make customers self-sufficient in adopting cloud-native practices.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Operations Research, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Operations Research, Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (10)
go10
cloud-foundry10
etcd10
devops10
cloud-infrastructure9
automations8
automation8
system-design8
app-platform7
bash7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/loggregator-release
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Cloud Native Logging
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily worked on backend functionalities and infrastructure within the Cloud Foundry logging system. Their contributions include adding components, configuring, and instrumenting the `syslog_drain_binder`, which is crucial for log management. They also removed syslog drain bindings from the DEA logging agent and worked on improving the Doppler component, including ensuring it only listens for external connections and implementing goroutine dumping. Additionally, the user made modifications to control scripts and included Dropsonde instrumentation for better monitoring.
cloud-nativeloggingcff-wg-app-runtime-platform
nwade/pal-tracker
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 pushes in 9 days
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