Peter Nitsch
Senior Product Design Manager at eBay
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nitsch is a senior product design leader with 15 years of experience designing end-to-end digital experiences and building the teams that deliver them across retail, fintech, and commerce. He has led large-scale design organizations at Shopify and Wealthsimple and now shapes product strategy and design at eBay while running an e-commerce brand focused on Canadian-made apparel. Equally comfortable in creative technology and product management, he began his career shipping interactive projects at Teehan+Lax (including work on the well-known Hyperlapse Street View project) and has hands-on engineering chops from early CTO and front-end roles. Peter excels at scaling design operations, establishing critique and mentorship cultures, and translating complex payment and marketplace flows into clear customer experiences. He pairs a craft-focused aesthetic with a practical builder’s mindset—able to move between code, prototypes, and strategic roadmaps. Based in Toronto and grounded in an Economics BA from Waterloo, he brings a pragmatic, product-first approach to design leadership.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (4)
front-end-development10
threejs10
user-interface10
javascript10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TeehanLax/Hyperlapse.js
Feb 2013 - May 2013
JavaScript hyper-lapse utility for Google Street View.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the JavaScript hyper-lapse utility. Their contributions included fixing mouse movement controls and related UI interactions within the `examples/basic.html` file. They also addressed issues by removing a blank texture, and refactoring code for a simpler example and upgrading to three.js r57.
javascriptstreet-viewstreetgoogle-streethyper
pnitsch/BitmapData.js
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:50 commits in 27 days
apicanvasjavascriptas3html5
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