Résumé | Nelson Pecora

“Brilliancy, Speed, Lightness, Glory”

A mantra taken from Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids, a dystopic novel about recovering from the climate crisis. To me, this represents everything I strive for as a developer.

Brilliancy

Wit, lateral thinking, and epiphanies. The ability to solve an intractable problem with an ingenious solution

Speed

Not just working quickly, but being able to break work down into iterable tasks. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Lightness

Iteration, modular architecture, and legible code. If you can work on a project and hand it to another developer without them wanting to stab you, you’re doing it right

Glory

The transcendent quality that separates the good from the amazing, the little touches that change the way we think about UIs, and the reason we describe some products as “magical and revolutionary”

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Skills

Engineering Management
- Agile Development
- SCRUM
- Kanban
- OKR Strategy
- Data-driven decision making
- Product Roadmapping
- Performance reviews
- Promotions
- Hiring & Onboarding
- Performance Calibration
- Goal-setting
- Career mentorship
- Cross-organizational alignment
- DACI
- SWOT Analysis
- OODA Loop
Software Architecture
- Platform engineering
- GraphQL API design
- ReST API design
- Modular CMS Design
- Technical documentation
- Knowledge base maintenance
- Observability & monitoring
- Performance & Scaling optimization
- Security best practices
- Infrastructure as Code
Programming
- Vue
- React
- Svelte
- Sass
- CSS-In-JS
- Node.js
- Node CLI Tooling
- Apollo
- Dgraph
- Redis
- Prosemirror
- Test-Driven Development
- Socrates & Databricks
- Splunk
- Typescript
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Rust
Design & User Experience
- Responsive Design
- Optimistic UI
- Information Architecture
- Design Sprints
- Data Visualization
- A11y & WCAG Accessibility
- Tutorial Design
- CLI Tooling UX
- Rich text interfaces

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager Atlassian

Remote · August 2022 – Present

I created and staffed a team of 15+ full-stack engineers responsible for Confluence CI/CD pipelines.

Principle Software Engineer Newsela

New York, NY · December 2018 – August 2022

Lead architect of Alexandria, Newsela's content management system. I built and mentored a team of engineers, designers, and product managers and led cross-departmental initiatives with direct business impact.