Niilo Smeds
Lead Software Engineer at Nike
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiilo Smeds is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with a decade of experience building data-driven, production-grade systems at Nike, where he now leads end-to-end clickstream pipeline efforts focused on quality, consistency, and stakeholder collaboration. He progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Nike, shaping telemetry, analytics, and GDPR-aware privacy approaches for large-scale digital experiences. Niilo blends hands-on full-stack JavaScript expertise from his earlier freelance and teaching work with production data engineering practices, enabling teams to ship reliable, testable features continuously. Outside engineering, he has a creative background as a concert lighting designer, a hint at his ability to manage complex, live-event scale systems under pressure.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at San Francisco State UniversityAdvanced Full-Stack JavaScript Development, Advanced Full-Stack JavaScript Development at Code Fellows
Github Skills (17)
single-page9
previews8
music7
genius-api6
spotify6
itunes-api5
computer-music5
api5
itunes5
synthesis5
trading5
stock5
javascript4
stock-trading4
react4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cfpdx-401JS-summer-2017/image-gallery
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:40 PRs, 17 pushes, 11 branches in 14 days
nsmeds/weather-widget
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
Finally, the best weather widget
Contributions:5 PRs, 19 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 3 months
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