Nick Wade
Founder at Digital Ocean, Inc.
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarNick Wade is a founder and product-focused operator with a decade of experience building ecosystem businesses, leading product teams, and driving go-to-market strategy across startups, IPOs, M&A and Fortune 500 environments. He blends hands-on product management and design sense with investor and advisory roles, previously shaping developer marketplaces and partnerships as Head of Ecosystem and Marketplace at Atlassian and DigitalOcean and as VP at Auth0. Known for team-building and creating shared understanding, he accelerates velocity through practical experimentation—learning from failures and scaling repeatable wins. Based in Newcastle, Australia, Nick also co-founded Opus Guard and brings a rare mix of operator instincts, strategic M&A experience, and marketplace expertise that helps founders and enterprises unlock platform-driven growth.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (69)
authentication10
digitalocean10
marketplace10
vscode10
development-environment10
ide10
validation9
linux9
browser9
command-line9
vscode-extension9
azure8
grav8
javascript8
grav-plugin8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/discourse-digitalocean
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Discourse theme
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 day
discoursediscourse-themedigitaloceandigital-ocean
wadenick/auth0-management-api
Sep 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 push in 10 months
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