Nick Seegmiller

Pronunciation: S (egg) mill er

SEG(leg)-mill-er (rhymes with "tiller")

@nseegmiller

Early life

Raised in Marysvale, UT

Population ~300

6 kids in class in elementary school

Double promoted 3rd/4th grade

~30 kids graduating class, Piute High School

School

B.S. in Computer Science

December 2006

Worked in research group

Analog and mixed signal circuit verification

LDS/Mormon Mission

Botswana & Johannesburg, South Africa

March 2002 - 2004

Alyssa is almost 20 & and studying at

University of Washington

Where I lived in SLC

Moved to Seattle

in November 2017

Will be moving soon

Backcountry.com

May 2006 - January 2008

Did full stack web development using Perl, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

I remember being excited when IE7 came out

Mostly worked on internal tools

Also worked on "one deal at at time" sites

back when Woot! was popular (steepandcheap.com, whiskeymilitia.com, etc.

Sensory Sweep Studios

January 2008 - November 2008

Worked on one game, The Tale of Despereaux

Primarily worked in C/C++

Was responsible for PS2 builds,

cameras, movement, and
traversal mechanics

I worked over 200 hours

of overtime after just 9 months

I was also owed 1.5 paychecks

Spillman Technologies

November 2008 - May 2013

Worked on a 30 year old software product

C/Java/Perl

Fixed bugs >20 years old

Promoted twice:

Manager after 2 years

Sr. Manager after 3 years

Public safety software

Was an expert on the computer aided dispatch (CAD) product

Eventually led all new product development
(developers only)

Vivint

May 2013 - November 2017

Built responsive app in Angular JS, later migrated to Vue.js

Implemented 2-way video experience for Android

Managed web, iOS, Android, backend (Python), embedded UI (Qt), manual QA, program managers, and SDETs

Alexa Smart Home

November 2017 - December 2018

Shipped Features

Alexa, turn up the bass/treble (1P and 3P)
Alexa, turn on the TV (Wake-on-LAN)
Alexa, pause Xbox/Roku (skill unification)

Managed two engineering teams + TPMs

Amazon Care

December 2018 - August 2020

Leader of mobile, web, dependent services teams, and TPM team
Beta and Amazon employee availability launches in October 2019 and February 2020
First availability in Apple App and Google Play Stores
Lead 60+ person org at the end
Product shut down not long after I left

Prime Gaming

August 2020 - November 2021

Free games and in-game content for Amazon Prime subscribers
Owner of gaming.amazon.com website and dependent services (content pipeline, claiming, etc.)
Launched email notifications, large backend refactor, and frontend reskin.
Where I worked with Shabnam!

Meta - Horizon Worlds

June 2022 - November 2024

VR platform for creating games and social worlds
Leader of most of the Engine teams
Rendering, Travel/Matchmaking, Networking, Embodiment, Performance, Native Mobile, and Simulation
Big launches include tri-mesh graphics, legs, travel improvements, and more.