Oliver Nicholas
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorOliver Nicholas is a seasoned technology executive with 16 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure and product teams across startups and high-growth companies in the Bay Area. Currently CEO of Line Card, he previously served as VP of Engineering and late cofounder at Nana—helping steer the company through product, engineering, and acquisition—and led large infrastructure and developer tools organizations at Uber during an intense growth period. He combines hands-on engineering chops from early full‑stack roles with strategic leadership in security, developer velocity, and operational reliability. A long-time advisor and board participant, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a pragmatic approach to hiring and team-building that once required onboarding a new engineer roughly every other week. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a CS degree from UC Santa Cruz, he favors deep expertise in a few domains while maintaining a wide curiosity across technologies and business models.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
pythonic7
rabbitmq6
python6
celery6
web-application6
redis6
messaging6
testing6
git-clone5
message-queue5
visualization5
hbase4
time-series4
java4
amazon4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/firefly
Aug 2012 - Dec 2012
Firefly is a web application aimed at powerful, flexible time series graphing for web developers.
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
visualizationweb-applicationfireflydata-visualizationtime-series
Yelp/Testify
Dec 2009 - Aug 2010
A more pythonic testing framework.
Contributions:3 commits in 8 months
testingpythonpythonictesting-framework
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