# Ted Nichols > Senior Software Engineer @ Marveri Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tednichols ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Marveri Jan 2024 – Present | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Building an AI-powered software for lawyers ### Head Of Engineering @ Centrly Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Developed an AI-powered market intelligence platform for corporate strategy teams to provide insight into a company's or market's traction. - Collaborated with founding team on crucial initiatives, including leading a full rewrite of the platform in React/GraphQL/postgreSQL stack ahead of securing seed investment in Oct '21. - Developed NLP and data processing pipelines to extract 212k publicly-announced B2B relationships from 5.6M news articles and automatically label those articles and companies with 2.2M unique taxonomy terms. - Integrated multiple third-party data sets including 2M+ Crunchbase organizations with automated deduplication and entity resolution. - Ensured security compliance with 3 Fortune / Global 100 companies. - Managed recruitment and hiring for full-time and internship roles. ### Tech Lead @ coUrbanize Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area All things engineering on legacy and greenfield products, from full-stack coding and devOps to managing and hiring other engineers – Led agile team of 3 to 5 engineers in architecture, prototyping, and delivery of greenfield portfolio management product for commercial real estate teams, resulting in successful sales. – Initiated tech strack transition (Ember/Django to React/Node) to reduce cycle time during feature development by 50% and allow us to recruit from a broader hiring pool. – Ensured mentorship and success of the existing team during that transition. – Improved stability of queuing and caching system of legacy software and reduced tech debt in data schema, thereby eliminating 2-3 production incidents a month and saving 40 hours a week of customer success and product employee time. – Collaborated closely with product and design to clarify ambiguous requirements, create sales-aligned roadmaps, and form SMART quarterly goals. – Managed a team of software engineers of diverse work experience, education, and identity backgrounds using an open and empathetic communication style. ### Team Lead @ Nanigans Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Boston, MA – Managed team of 4, leading design and development of full stack features in Javascript, Groovy, and PHP for best-in-market ad campaign management and analytics platform. – Initiated agile standards, including daily standups, biweekly retrospectives, and continuous integration using Jenkins, thereby reducing shipped bugs by 80% and improving morale across engineering, QA, and product team of 20. – Improved high-touch client relationships by expediting implementation of custom solution to retain $200k annual contract and by representing engineering team during executive team's international visit to major ridesharing business. – Designed top-to-bottom overhaul of ad deploy system to make ad objects mutable. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Nanigans Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 – Full stack experience shipping features for building and deploying ads combinatorically across multiple channels. – Controlled scrum process for twenty person engineering and QA team, including remote members. – Consolidated three high-conflict teams into one process stream. – Implemented full stack features in Javascript and Groovy/Grails (e.g. new ad types and channels, in-app video slideshow editor, scheduling and split testing ad deploys) to rival Facebook's internal tools. – Implemented innovative features to stay ahead of Facebook's own internal tools, including an editor to make video slideshows from still images. – Refactored and profiled legacy PHP code to fix critical bugs and apply better coding practices while improving overall app performance. – Mentored UX intern through design and shipping of her own feature to production environment over ten weeks, addressing a major outstanding client need. ### Software Engineer @ Abine, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 – Full stack experience shipping consumer privacy-focused password manager to millions of users, from browser extension layer to client-side one-page app to server and database levels. – Implemented UI/UX flows in Javascript and Coffeescript using Marionette, Backbone, and Bootstrap, rapidly iterating based on user feedback. – Built RESTful server backend using Ruby on Rails, integrating with external data systems (cloud storage, subscriptions, payments, email, and phone). – Led agile process to ensure four week turnaround on crucial payments prototype. – Collaborated with product and marketing team on privacy-conscious data modeling, data analysis and generating useful reports from large data sets. – Created framework for tracking results of in-product split tests to advocate for internal accountability on business metrics. – Designed and implemented in-house analytics system consistent with privacy policy. – Designed privacy-conscious data model for password manager. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Wesleyan University Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### B.A. in Computer Science Wesleyan University Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ted-nichols-92233440 --- Source: https://flows.cv/tednichols JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tednichols/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22