Dave Nicponski
Co-Founder & CEO at Freshly Baked NYC
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarDave Nicponski is a seasoned software leader and founder with a decade of experience building and scaling high-performance systems across startups and major tech platforms. He currently leads Freshly Baked NYC as Co-Founder & CEO after senior engineering and architecture roles at Robinhood, Bridgewater Associates, and earlier leadership as CTO of SeamlessDocs. His foundations include eight years at Google working on Maps, Borg infrastructure, ad-exchange systems, and structured search backends, and senior engineering at Twitter, giving him deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale production services. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has repeatedly moved between hands-on technical roles and executive leadership, shaping platform reliability and go-to-market productization. Based in the New York City area, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade architecture experience, favoring pragmatic solutions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (191)
concurrent-programming10
nix10
testing10
guice10
intellij-idea10
effects10
concurrency10
slf4j10
async10
linux10
zio10
nixos10
concurrent10
jvm10
sbt10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
virusdave/AOC
Dec 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:110 pushes, 3 branches, 2 comments in 3 years
virusdave/nix-darwin
Dec 2020 - Feb 2026
nix modules for darwin
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
nixosdarwinnix-modules
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