Summary
Nicolas Feigenbaum is a Principal Engineer based in Portland with over a decade of experience leading engineering teams across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on architecture and product development—ranging from founding a SaaS platform (Polyseer.io) to unifying products at Autodesk—with a passion for mentoring engineers and improving developer velocity. His background spans core web products, platform services (email, files, messaging), and real-time pub/sub systems, with repeated responsibility for design, scaling, and test-driven practices. Nicolas has a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end, including compensation management platforms and high-volume marketing email tooling. He brings an unusual blend of technical depth and empathy for team growth, informed by his early training in physiological psychology and pre-med coursework. Currently driving architecture and delivery at BuildVision, he focuses on enabling teams to build reliable, scalable software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Academy of Art University
Bachelor’s Degree Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology & Completion of Pre-Med Coursework, Bachelor’s Degree Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology & Completion of Pre-Med Coursework at Santa Clara University