David Nakamura

Vice President of Engineering

david.nakamura@email.com +49 170 1234567 linkedin.com/in/davidnakamura

DOB: 15.03.1990 Nationality: Australian

English (Native)German (B2)

Professional Summary

Engineering executive with 15+ years of experience scaling technology organisations from 20 to 200+ engineers. Led platform modernisation initiatives generating $40M+ in annual revenue. Proven ability to align engineering strategy with business objectives, build high-performing teams, and drive operational excellence across distributed organisations.

Experience

VP of Engineering

Jan 2020 – Present

Nexus Technologies, Berlin, Germany

Lead 120+ engineers across 14 squads delivering core platform serving 5M+ users
Grew engineering org from 45 to 120 while maintaining 92% retention rate
Drove platform migration from legacy monolith to cloud-native architecture (AWS/K8s)
Reduced time-to-market by 60% through DevOps transformation and CI/CD maturity
Managed $18M annual engineering budget with full P&L accountability
Established engineering career ladder and promoted 15 engineers to senior/staff level

Director of Engineering

Mar 2016 – Dec 2019

PayRight, Munich, Germany

Built and led 6 engineering teams (55 engineers) for fintech payment platform
Delivered PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance enabling $2B+ in annual transaction volume
Launched mobile payments product contributing $12M ARR within first year
Implemented OKR framework aligning engineering output to business goals
Reduced critical incident response time from 4 hours to 15 minutes

Engineering Manager

Jun 2012 – Feb 2016

Atlassian, Hamburg, Germany

Managed 3 teams (18 engineers) on Jira Cloud infrastructure
Led migration to microservices architecture reducing deployment failures by 80%
Shipped 4 major features contributing to 25% growth in enterprise accounts
Established on-call rotation and incident management process for 99.95% SLA

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2009 – May 2012

ThoughtWorks, Berlin, Germany

Led technical delivery for 3 enterprise consulting engagements ($5M+ combined)
Championed agile practices and TDD across client organisations

Skills

Engineering Leadership
Organisational Design
Strategic Planning
P&L Management
Talent Acquisition
Team Building
Cloud Architecture
Platform Engineering
DevOps
Agile/SAFe
OKRs
Stakeholder Management
M&A Technical Due Diligence
Vendor Management

Education

MBA (Technology Management)

2014 – 2016

TU Berlin

Bachelor of Software Engineering

2005 – 2008

TU Munich

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2021)
SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) (2020)