Nikko Bautista
Senior Engineering Manager at Confluent
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikko Bautista is a seasoned engineering leader based in San Francisco with 14+ years of experience building high-scale, secure platforms across startups and major tech companies. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Confluent, he previously led engineering teams at LinkedIn through multiple roles from software engineer to senior manager, demonstrating strong technical progression and people leadership. He has a track record of shipping data-intensive systems and developer-facing infrastructure—work rooted in early product and platform roles at Bright.com and entrepreneurial SaaS projects from his Web Pilipinas days. Comfortable switching between hands-on engineering and strategic management, he excels at scaling teams distributed across geographies, having managed offshore engineering groups earlier in his career. Nikko combines practical product sensibility with platform-level thinking, often bridging the gap between data pipelines and user-facing services. His background as a technical writer and founder hints at a talent for clear communication and building tools that simplify complex workflows.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Ateneo de Manila University
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (25)
eden10
laravel10
php10
laravel-framework10
php-library9
unirest8
scribd7
client-library6
guzzle6
dice4
pong4
api3
http-client3
tabletop3
illuminate3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikkobautista/scribd
May 2013 - Dec 2014
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 8 months
robertphpcomposerphp-libraryscribd
nikkobautista/geonames
Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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