Engineering manager, engineer, poet: I enjoy doing what it takes and my goal is to do more, better. Specialties: 0's and 1's, Humans.

Staff Engineer @ Working on interesting infrastructure and performance problems in the Routing space, improving core components of Uber's always-on, latency-sensitive and high-throughput global logistics engine. From February 2015 to Present (11 months) Senior Engineering Manager @ Hired and lead the Core Infrastructure teams, including Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Logging and Metrics, and Developer Experience. From 3 people up to around 45. From September 2014 to February 2015 (6 months) Engineering Manager @ Hired and lead the Core Infrastructure teams, including Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, Logging and Metrics, and Developer Experience. From 3 people up to around 45. From October 2012 to September 2014 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineering Manager @ Lead the Infrastructure team, responsible for the layers between system administration and feature development - core SOA primitives and shared services built on top of those, performance tooling and monitoring for the main Yelp web stack, and developer tools. From September 2011 to August 2012 (1 year) Software Engineer @ Four years as an IC spread across front-end, full stack and infrastructure. From January 2008 to August 2011 (3 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaHacker @ From July 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ University of California, Santa Cruz From 2001 to 2006 Oliver Nicholas is skilled in: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, Ruby, AJAX, JavaScript, Java, C, Linux, Subversion, CSS, SQL, OOP, Cloud Computing, Web Applications