Nick Kleinschmidt

nick.kleinschmidt@gmail.com
Boulder, CO

Engineering leader with experience across startups, consulting, and scaled companies. That background built deep technical expertise, strong product instincts, and a clear view of what makes teams effective. Stays close to the details, drives technical and product direction, and builds teams that consistently deliver high-impact work.

Experience

ClickUp

Director of Engineering Jan 2026–Present

Leading a product engineering organization (40+ engineers) spanning project management, data visualization, and monetization

Driving investment in platform capabilities, developer tooling, and product features to support enterprise use cases and upmarket growth
Reshaping team structure and delivery practices to improve product quality and execution consistency

Lattice

Senior Director of Engineering Dec 2024–Nov 2025

Director of Engineering Mar 2024–Dec 2024

Led Platform Engineering at Lattice (40+ engineers), owning infrastructure, developer tooling, product platform, analytics, and design systems powering the company’s people management and HRIS product suite

Directed transition to multi-region architecture (including EU data residency), unlocking enterprise sales and international expansion
Established reliability program (end-to-end testing, error log attribution and alerting, ownership standards, AI-based snapshot testing) reducing site-wide incidents by 60%
Scaled adoption of AI-assisted development across engineering, with ~10% of PRs authored by AI and measurable improvements in support and debugging workflows
Led cross-engineering initiatives (20+ teams) to improve site performance and implement tenant isolation, increasing scalability and security for enterprise workloads
Implemented organizational redesigns to align engineering with HRIS and AI strategy, improving focus and execution across teams
Built leadership bench, hiring EMs and senior roles while developing ICs into managers and Staff+ leaders
Drove performance interventions across teams and managers, reshaping underperforming areas to restore execution and accountability

Principal Software Engineer Jun 2023–Mar 2024

Senior Staff Software Engineer Jul 2022–Jun 2023

Company-wide technical lead for engineering strategy and systems architecture across multiple organizations (150+ engineers)

Served as technical DRI for integration and launch of Lattice’s newly developed HRIS product, delivering a company-critical initiative six months ahead of schedule and driving execution from internal rollout to external launch
Drove architectural evolution from monolith to service-oriented architecture, enabling modular development and aligning platform direction to support HRIS integration and long-term product expansion
Led development of foundational platform capabilities (distributed authentication, GraphQL federation, gRPC, site performance tooling) adopted across the engineering organization
Identified developer tooling gaps and championed creation of a dedicated platform frameworks team, establishing “paved roads” that improved developer velocity and software consistency across teams
Represented the IC perspective on the Engineering Leadership Team, contributing to headcount planning, organizational design, and technical strategy

Meta (Facebook), Software Engineer - Tech Lead 2019–2022

Led teams across privacy, video calling, and business messaging; shipped user-facing features and backend infrastructure at scale

Directed the development of a new Privacy Checkup experience on mobile and web using topic-based navigation to align with user concerns and provide greater control; launched and promoted to nearly two billion people worldwide on Data Privacy Day
Created zero-to-one project focused on delivering personalized privacy education to users; drove the creation of designs, content, ML models for targeting, and experimentation plans, setting up a long-term project for four engineers
Coordinated three teams (30+ engineers) to retire a legacy support on-call rotation, reducing on-call load for the team and simplifying ramp-up for new hires; planned and supervised reassignment of 3,000 assets, 600 backlog tasks, and seven products across multiple organizations
Built and led four-person team delivering multi-user collaboration tools for Meta Business Suite messaging, enabling businesses to handle customer messages more efficiently through tools for triaging work, communicating context, and providing real-time progress updates; created product vision and roadmap that secured ongoing funding

Software Engineering Consultant 2014–2018

Independent consultant delivering full-stack development and product strategy to early-stage and enterprise clients

Videology - Tech lead managing system design and technical mentorship for AdTech data management platform
- Designed data architecture providing third-party data for online video and linear TV campaigns, supporting real-time decisioning (100K+ reqs/sec) and campaign analytics
- Built out runtime configuration management system enabling reliable worldwide deployment of large configuration payloads and change management tracking
- Implemented gRPC client-side load balancing for internal API calls, eliminating significant latency and internal load balancing costs
Tyrula - Designed and built systems supporting testing for patients with chronic conditions and kiosk data entry at health fairs
Balanced Payments - Developed open-source Ember.js dashboard used by customers to administer credit card processing; managed open-source process including commit guidelines, new developer setup, technical blog, and pull requests
Goldschmitt and Associates - Designed and built React front-end for shift scheduling system for a US Government agency
Tamber - Built a consumer iOS app for finding concerts based on music listening habits
17FEET - Collaborated with design studio to build consumer Android application for reading magazines
E-Agree - Developed prototype Ruby on Rails application for managing legal contracts, resulting in company funding and product launch

Ring.io, Director of Software Engineering 2011–2012

First engineering hire at SMB telephony startup founded by former colleagues; hired and managed team of six engineers

Created a distributed development process that accelerated iteration and releases for a team spanning the US and Europe
Led development of call center product using a modularized phone calling engine, enabling significant ARPU growth and increased development velocity
Managed development consulting efforts, overseeing requirements gathering, project management, and post-deployment support, leading to substantial follow-on business

LucidMedia, Principal Architect 2008–2011

As part of a four-person development team, created a Display-Side AdTech Platform that was later acquired by Videology

Angel.com, Principal Software Engineer 2006–2008

Built web-configurable telephony systems enabling IVR and cloud call center use cases