Will Nielsen | Software Engineering Leader

Profile

Outcome-oriented technology and people leader with 17+ years of experience delivering enterprise-level software, systems integrations, and operations projects. Experience includes working for publicly held and private organizations, leading co-located and distributed teams.

Technologies

Java, AWS, GCP
Docker, Kubernetes
NRDB, MySQL, MongoDB
JavaScript, React, Angular, Node
Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Cypress

Work History

New Relic, Dallas, TX

July 2020 – Current

Software Engineering Manager, New Relic Database Core Team

Lead the distributed database core team responsible for multiple petabytes of monitoring, event, logging, and trace data transacting at 236 GB/s on average. We are focused on reliability, performance and resiliancy.
Hiring 1 Senior Software Engineer and 2 Software Engineers by FYQ3.
Facilitating a newly formed highly experienced team to create software that is renown by engineers and customers alike.

Bestow, Dallas, TX

January 2020 – July 2020

Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Direct to Consumer Domain

Lead the team responsible for the user interface facilitating the 800% YoY growth of online life insurance revenue.
Hired 4 new team members since January 2020.
Seeking to improve quality, consistency and predictability of a new and relatively inexperienced team in an extremely fast paced environment.
Successfully mentoring manager candidate in another domain who was promoted in August 2020.

Cox Automotive, Dallas, TX

May 2015 – December 2019

Software Engineering Manager, Dealer.com, Partner Solutions Engineering

Currently lead 3 top Agile Scrum teams for Dealer.com’s largest revenue client, 19 direct reports.
Hired 6 new teams since March 2017.
Drove initiatives around quality and automation with a view towards CI/CD.
Developed multiple team leaders.
Entered the company as a Web Developer (May 2015 – March 2017) where, as the team tech-lead, I led one of the first two Dallas based PSE teams to redefine quality professional-grade software at Dealer.com company-wide.

Sq1 Digital Agency, Dallas, TX

May 2014 – May 2015

Lead Engineer

Managed two engineering teams serving top clients like Shell Oil, Jiffy Lube, Daikin.
Worked closely with Project Managers and VP of Operations to successfully deliver the largest project in agency history – Jiffy Lube Web Application.

Nielsen Digital, Dallas, TX

June 2002 – April 2014

Owner

Managed all aspects of a full-service digital marketing and branding company.
Coordinated teams of 2-6, locally and remotely.
Managed projects that spanned a few weeks to multiple years.
Involved in design, architecture, development, testing, debugging, and maintenance.