Nicole Chalmers
Chief Operating Officer At Exercism
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicole Chalmers is a product and operations leader with eight years of experience scaling mission-driven tech, currently serving as COO at Exercism where she helped grow the platform from 100k to nearly 2.5M users through a strategy grounded in cognitive science and inclusive learning design. She blends product strategy, partnerships, and learning research to build accessible, mentor-driven experiences that measurably boost engagement and contributor conversion. Previously she led product at Kaido and co-founded Thalamus, advising startups that went on to raise a $13M Series A and achieve acquisitions, demonstrating an ability to translate user insight into investor-ready products. Nicole’s career began in community-led medical education, where she drove dramatic retention and adoption gains, and she remains focused on tools that empower overlooked learners and strengthen developer ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Critical Reasoning - FHEQ Level 4, Critical Reasoning - FHEQ Level 4 at University of Oxford, Department for Continuing EducationBachelor of Arts - BA, International Business and Management, Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Business and Management at Aston Business School
Github Skills (12)
conversations10
crowd10
react8
nextjs7
icon-pack7
typescript7
svg6
svg-files6
jekyll6
logos5
svg-images5
branding4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jiki-education/design
Nov 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:57 pushes in 5 months
exercism/website-icons
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Icons for the Exercism website
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes, 26 comments in 1 year 11 months
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