Ella Nielsen

Overview

15 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Loom AI, where I lead the growth team. Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 782ms to 173ms. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. CTO

   Oct 2022 - Present
   Loom AI · 4 yr · Full-time · Oslo, Norway
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 21% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 10 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
2. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
   Wise · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Oslo, Norway
   • Shipped 23 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Moved 78% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Full-Stack Engineer

   Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
   L'Oréal · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Oslo, Norway
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 46% in two quarters.
   • Moved 87% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Full-Stack Engineer

   Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
   Novartis · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Oslo, Norway
   • Shipped 8 launches on the growth team without a rollback.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 4.
5. Full-Stack Engineer

   May 2013 - Feb 2015
   Telefónica · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Oslo, Norway
   • Brought on-call pages for growth down from 31 a week to 3.

Projects

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Education

1. Humboldt University of Berlin

   BA, Computer Science
   2008 - 2011