Nicholas Dunning

Software Engineering Manager

Angie's List•  September 2018 - August 2020

Promoted to lead delivery teams across both Pro and Consumer experiences. Responsible for hiring and day-to-day leadership of 4 delivery teams that leveraged engineering principals, operational experience, and automation into the Angie’s List & Home Advisor platforms, shaping infrastructure foundation for rapid and reliable delivery. Development, project management & forecasts, product delivery, daily execution, processes, health, and cohesion of a delivery team. Applied MVP mindset to solving problems and negotiating deliverables. Team Management: - Pro Offering team— responsible for mHelpDesk integrations, Business Management Tools, and Quickbooks integration. - Pro team— responsible for Business Center Site, SP Join funnels, and pro revenue verticals. ($262M Revenue Flow) - Consumer team— responsible for twilio integrations, deals, and notifications & review verticals. - Consumer Integration team— responsible for merger integrations, user & lead generation verticals, and join funnels. (8M Members & $1.1B job match revenue flow) Championed Innovative Projects: - Marketing Feedback Loop—Oversaw the construction of this project where it was aimed at providing Marketing with the tools and data to make accurate judgements on where and when to spend marketing dollars appropriately based on how our new users originated on our platform. - Business Management Tools—Shepard the completion of a marquee cobranded Angie’s List/mHelpDesk integration project. - SP Join Funnel—Optimization and overhaul of the SP Join funnel which led to overall 15-20% increase in funnel conversion.

Staff Software Engineer

Angie's List•  January 2018 - September 2018

Promoted to a leadership position to lead our consumer experience development & integration of Angie’s List & Home Advisor platforms. Responsible for cross-team communication, domain expertise, architectural adherence, strategy, talent evaluation, and talent & leadership development Oversaw Marquee Product Lines: - New Ad Platform—Led the construction of key features for a new Advertising platform, specifically the Contact vertical. - Merger Integrations—Oversaw AL technical integration work related to the HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List/Handy mergers. - Product/Tech Ownership—Owned member join, user, account, and lead generation verticals.

Senior Software Engineer

Angie's List•  March 2014 - January 2018

Promoted after replacing an aging C# and .NET legacy platform with a modern platform using Scala, Play, and ReactJs. Individual contributor, responsible for development and delivery of key Pro and Consumer business features. Advanced Key Business Features: - HA Integrations—Launched a new, cobranded conversion funnel as part of the HomeAdvisor/Angie’s List merger with a tight timeline. - Move to Freemium—Led, owned and optimized all Member Join funnels across our entire platform and moved us into a freemium model. - Stackato Migration—Spearheaded engineering teams through Stackato migration which allowed teams to streamline continuous deployments, reduce operational costs and boost delivery teams efficiencies. - Fulfillment Services—Front-end & Server-side lead developer for Angie's List fulfillment services including SnapFix and LeadFeed. - AL 4.0 Platform Rebuild—Lead developer on key initiatives that rebuilt and migrated the entire AL technology platform off an aging stack and onto a new modern platform using modern & scalable designs, frameworks and languages.

Software Engineer

Angie's List•  June 2012 - March 2014

Joined Angie’s List prior to the new platform overhaul, primarily worked on AL's legacy stack. Member of eCommerce team, geared towards building monetization features using C#, .NET, and MSSQL.

Software Engineer Intern

AAI Corporation•  May 2011 - August 2011

AAI is a defense & space government contractor developing unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs). Completed internship project designing & developing an intranet web application used by AAI employees to track progress on UAVs work orders within the constraints of Earned Value Management.