Nick Van Wiggeren is CTO at PlanetScale, building database infrastructure for developers. He previously led engineering teams at DigitalOcean and GitHub. His work connects distributed-systems engineering with the management practices that let teams do it well: clear communication, useful constraints, and an environment where people can take ownership of difficult technical problems.
Nick Van Wiggeren is CTO at PlanetScale, building database infrastructure for developers. He previously led engineering teams at DigitalOcean and GitHub. His work connects distributed-systems engineering with the management practices that let teams do it well: clear communication, useful constraints, and an environment where people can take ownership of difficult technical problems.
Career
Chief Technology Officer at PlanetScale from 2021 to Present