Nick Caldwell

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Chief Product Officer

San Francisco, California, United States
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As Chief Product Officer at Peloton Interactive, I lead a 600-person team across product management, engineering, design, and research to drive innovation and deliver exceptional fitness technology experiences. My team oversees the hardware, software, ecommerce, and platform that power Peloton's ecosystem, connecting users globally and enabling personal growth through fitness.

With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, I have a proven track record of building and scaling innovative products and solutions that delight users and customers and drive business growth. As the General Manager at Twitter, I led a 2000 person team that powered one of the world's largest and most influential social media platforms. As the VP of Engineering at Reddit, I took the company through hyper-scale, growing the engineering team from 35 to over 200 engineers, and increasing the monthly active users from 250 million to over 500 million. As the General Manager of Microsoft Power BI and Chief Product Officer of Looker (acquired by Google), I developed two most innovative BI tools in recent years, delivering cutting-edge data analytics and visualization capabilities to thousands of enterprises.

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  • Peloton Interactive Graphic

    Chief Product Officer

    Peloton Interactive

    - Present 2 years 3 months

    New York, United States

    Excited to lead the product organization at Peloton. Connecting the world through fitness, empowering everyone to be the best version of themselves. I manage a 600 person team of product managers, engineers, designers, researchers responsible for the hardware, software, ecommerce, and platform that drive all Peloton product experiences.
    NASDAQ: PTON

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    Board Member

    HubSpot

    - Present 5 years 1 month

    Experienced board member at HubSpot, contributing to corporate governance and strategic growth through active participation on the Audit and Compensation Committees. Committed to driving accountability, transparency, and sustainable performance at scale. Public company NASDAQ:HUBS

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    Board Member

    Bitly

    - 2 years

    Bitly Inc., the world’s leading Connections Platform. Recently surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and 520,000 global customers. 🚀B2B private company.

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    Board Member

    True Search

    - 2 years 7 months

  • Twitter

    Twitter

    2 years 6 months

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      General Manager

      Twitter

      - 1 year

      Executive leader (Section 16) for a cross functional team of more than 2000 brilliant individuals responsible for Twitter's core engineering platform and services. Managed a $1.3B budget. Responsible for IT, InfoSec, multiple data centers, core APIs, computer/storage/caching, AI & machine learning platform, and shared design library. NASDAQ:TWTR

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      Vice President Of Engineering

      Twitter

      - 1 year 7 months

      San Francisco Bay Area

      Lead a talented team of 700 engineers responsible for all consumer-facing Twitter products. These include the website and mobile experiences, all feeds, discovery/search/recommendations, and trust-and-safety engineering.

      Notable experiences included: acquiring and integrating more than 7 consumer startups, Twitter Spaces, Community Notes, Twitter Blue (VIP Program), the Edit Button, and an AI-powered feed.

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    Senior Director, Product and Engineering

    Google

    - 5 months

    Leading the Looker product organization through integration and growth at our new home in Google Cloud Platform. Responsible for Engineering, Product, Design, and Product Marketing.

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    Chief Product Officer

    Looker

    - 1 year 9 months

    Acquired by Google. Responsible for building 170 person Engineering, Product, and Design team. Our mission at Looker: To inspire everyone to embrace their curiosity, dig deeper and keep asking questions.

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    VP Engineering

    Reddit, Inc.

    - 2 years 1 month

    San Francisco Bay Area

    Led engineering team through hyper-scale. Reddit is the home of authentic conversation online (and an awesome place to work)! We're the 5th most popular website in the U.S., serving up content of all kinds to more than 300 million users per month. As VP of Eng, I'm helping take Reddit to the next level by expanding our phenomenal development team, delivering rapid improvements to our web/mobile/ad products, and kicking off multiple new strategic bets. Responsibilities included engineering for…

    Led engineering team through hyper-scale. Reddit is the home of authentic conversation online (and an awesome place to work)! We're the 5th most popular website in the U.S., serving up content of all kinds to more than 300 million users per month. As VP of Eng, I'm helping take Reddit to the next level by expanding our phenomenal development team, delivering rapid improvements to our web/mobile/ad products, and kicking off multiple new strategic bets. Responsibilities included engineering for all core products, ad platform, IT and Infosec. Product responsibilities for Reddit creators program and Reddit News feed.

    Highlights: Launch of Reddit's mobile app, a complete redesign of Reddit's website, rebuild of search, rebuild of chat, creation of a suite of new tools for moderators, Reddit creator's program, Reddit's first automatic feeds Popular/News.

  • Microsoft

    Microsoft

    15 years 6 months

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      General Manager

      Microsoft

      - 1 year 1 month

      Redmond

      General Manager for Power BI, Microsoft's premier business intelligence suite. Oversaw a 300 engineer/PM organization with multiple products for desktop, SaaS, mobile, and embedded BI. Our mission was to quickly become the world’s most recognizable, capable, and frequently used modern business intelligence solution. Rapidly grew a portfolio of products and teams from inception to delivery.

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      Partner, Director of Engineering

      Microsoft

      - 1 year 8 months

      Greater Seattle Area

      Founding team member for Power BI, one of Microsoft's fastest growing products. Lead a 150+ person engineering organization for PowerBI.com. Our goal is to disrupt and transform the business intelligence category by quickly delivering a beautiful and engaging SaaS experience to millions of users.

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      Principal Engineering Manager

      Microsoft

      - 2 years 2 months

      Redmond, WA

      Development manager for the SQL BI New Experience Team. Staffed and lead a V1 team of 35 developers to create next-generation business intelligence experiences powered by AI. Brings together many technologies including artificial intelligence, natural language search, interactive data visualizations, mobile, and web services.

      Projects include:
      InfoNav - access BI reports using the power of natural language and interactive data visualization
      Mobile BI "Helix" - mobile access to BI…

      Development manager for the SQL BI New Experience Team. Staffed and lead a V1 team of 35 developers to create next-generation business intelligence experiences powered by AI. Brings together many technologies including artificial intelligence, natural language search, interactive data visualizations, mobile, and web services.

      Projects include:
      InfoNav - access BI reports using the power of natural language and interactive data visualization
      Mobile BI "Helix" - mobile access to BI reports on Win8 and iOS

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      Senior Engineering Manager

      Microsoft

      - 5 years 2 months

      Lead a team of talented software engineers and contractors in support of several projects involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, enterprise search, text analytics, and artificial intelligence techniques. Responsibilities include project leadership, technical strategy, recruiting/staffing, and partner team engagement. Shipped features and text analysis components across Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows, Bing, MSN, and Windows…

      Lead a team of talented software engineers and contractors in support of several projects involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, enterprise search, text analytics, and artificial intelligence techniques. Responsibilities include project leadership, technical strategy, recruiting/staffing, and partner team engagement. Shipped features and text analysis components across Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows, Bing, MSN, and Windows Phone.

      Example projects:
      "Huddle" - exploration of next generation project management tools integrated into SharePoint. Organized and lead a team consisting of developers, testers, computational linguists, usability engineers, and researchers. Won several internal awards and had multiple review meetings with Microsoft executive leadership (Ray Ozzie, Stephen Elop, Kurt DelBene).

      Mailbox Intelligence - Architecture for performing advanced text analysis on Exchange 2012. Includes information extraction methods for contact information, meeting requests, keywords, question/answer pairs, and task assignments.

      SharePoint Site Mailbox - provide SharePoint sites a shared mail repository backed by Exchange.

      Excel Voice Commands - prototype Excel add-in that allows for the import of data as well chart creation and manipulation using natural language commands.

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      Senior Software Development Engineer

      Microsoft

      - 3 years 9 months

      Speech and Natural Language Group. Shipped several features related to proofing tools,statistical natural language processing, and search. The most well-known is the engine code for the spellchecker which is now used across most Microsoft products in more than 40 languages.

      Example projects:
      Spellchecking / thesaurus - Designed and implemented a framework for language-scalable orthographic spellcheckers. Now used daily in 40+ languages by hundreds of millions of…

      Speech and Natural Language Group. Shipped several features related to proofing tools,statistical natural language processing, and search. The most well-known is the engine code for the spellchecker which is now used across most Microsoft products in more than 40 languages.

      Example projects:
      Spellchecking / thesaurus - Designed and implemented a framework for language-scalable orthographic spellcheckers. Now used daily in 40+ languages by hundreds of millions of users

      Contextual Spellchecker - Language-model based statistical spellchecker, ships in Word 2003 and later.

      Expertise Tagging - SharePoint service analyzes a user’s document collection and sent mail to automatically determine their area of expertise

      "Did You Mean?" - Query spelling correction in low-traffic scenarios. Uses a lexicon generated from search-index data to provide search query completion and correction.

      Appointment Wizard - prototype Outlook add-in enabling users to create and alter calendar items with natural language commands.

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      Intern

      Microsoft

      - 2 years 4 months

      Interned in the Natural Language Group
      - "Pivot Table Wizard" which enabled spoken natural language commands to be used for manipulating Excel pivot tables.

      Interned in the Direct3D Group
      - Optimized “Unreal Warfare” 3d game engine
      - Developed OpenGL emulator using DirectX under Windows XP
      - Worked on OpenGL shim for app compatibility

  • Multiplayer Technology Consultant

    Self-Employed

    - 1 year 1 month

    Greater Boston Area

    Consultant for gaming companies seeking to develop online multiplayer experiences. Extensive use of Winsock and TCP/IP libraries. Custom designed a hybrid peer-to-peer network architecture for massively multiplayer games. Featured writer on Game Developer’s Network. Wrote a paper on using cubic splines to defeat the effects of Internet latency in real-time games.

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    Intern

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

    - 3 years 1 month

    Greenbelt, Maryland

    Held several internships at NASA over the course of 3 years. Researched the use of micro-fabricated Fresnel zone plates in x-ray source analysis. The work was part of the $250M High-Energy Solar Spectral Imager (HESSI) satellite project.
    - Programmed user interface, hardware controllers, and analytics tools
    - Created user interface and hardware library to display x-ray detector output in real-time.
    - Developed image analysis software to measure micron-sized differences in test…

    Held several internships at NASA over the course of 3 years. Researched the use of micro-fabricated Fresnel zone plates in x-ray source analysis. The work was part of the $250M High-Energy Solar Spectral Imager (HESSI) satellite project.
    - Programmed user interface, hardware controllers, and analytics tools
    - Created user interface and hardware library to display x-ray detector output in real-time.
    - Developed image analysis software to measure micron-sized differences in test materials.
    - Required use of VB, AutoCAD, Matlab, and assembly.

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