Nick Beattie

Polymarket

Head of Product Engineering, 2024-Present

Rainbow

Director of Engineering, 2021-2024

  • Manage Mobile Application, Browser Extension, and RainbowKit (+1m npm downloads) teams. Prior to layoffs, managed 3 engineering managers, each with 3-6 (15 employees overall) direct reports, across Engineering and QA.
  • Responsible for engineering roadmap, prioritization, hiring, mentoring new managers, coaching engineers.
  • Established weekly release cadence for wallet applications, and continuous deployment of open-source packages.
  • Zero introduction of sev0 bugs.

Truework

Engineering Manager, 2019-2021

  • Managed two teams: API Enterprise and Self-service/Growth
  • Rearchitected frontend application, built Enterprise API and Freddie Mac features.
  • Built self-service onboarding. Built Enterprise Teams features.
  • Created Product Roadmap for Growth team.
  • Django, django-rest-framework, AWS, React, Next.js, Sanity

Postlight

Senior Software Engineer, 2016-2019

  • Built fullstack applications for clients, using Node.js, React, React Native, Next.js, GraphQL, browser extensions.
  • Worked with Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, The Players' Tribune, Barnes and Noble, The Village Voice, and others.
  • Lead developer for Mercury Reader, a Chrome extension with +1m users.

Lyons Consulting

Senior Software Engineer, 2015-2016

  • First frontend hire for a new e-commerce platform. Building tooling, developer processes, e-commerce storefronts, and inventory management systems.
  • Java, Spring MVC, hybris, bootstrap, atomic CSS.

Hyperakt

Software Engineer, 2014-2015

  • Solo developer for design agency. Built CMS-driven sites, data visualizations, fullstack, and single-page applications using Craft CMS, Ruby, React, D3, jQuery, Node.js.
  • Created OnTheGrid as 20% project with Eric Fennsterheim. Millions of pageviews.

Acquity Group (Acquired by Accenture)

Technical Consultant, 2012-2014

  • Built fullstack e-commerce systems (storefront, inventory management, B2B team management) for Fortune 500 companies. Used HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, Backbone, jQuery, Spring MVC, Java, hybris.

Education

University of Notre Dame, 2012

Information Technology Management, Mendoza College of Business

  • Captain of Varsity Men's Lacrosse Team, All-Academic Big East, National Championship Runner-Up
  • Posterous College Mobilizer

Other

  • I've coached varsity lacrosse at Lincoln High School in Seattle since 2021.
  • Gavin, Mike, and I hack on Rectangle Factory in our spare time. We got our start in creating onchain NFTs. As of Jan 2024, we've done ~780 ETH in volume on OpenSea. We are working on new onchain creative game.
  • Eric Bailey and I are (slowly) building the Foursquare we wished existed in 2024.