Nick Locking

Nick Locking is a highly experienced professional with a track record of success in leadership roles for over 14 years, where he built and led numerous high-performing in-office, semi-remote, and remote teams with a focus on successful project releases. He has strong expertise in managing Scrum and Product Development Life Cycles (PDLCs) and served as an Agile Coach.

With over 20 years of experience as an Individual Contributor (IC), Nick Locking has developed mobile apps, web frontends, and backends that cater to hundreds of millions of users across various well-known platforms like Grindr, Pray.com, Ring, Whisper, and Flipagram. His technical skills span across multiple technologies including Swift, Node.js, Typescript, C, Java, PHP, Python, React, REST, microservices, subscriptions/payments, AWS, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4J, SQL, and more.

Outside of his professional career, Nick Locking is a martial arts black belt and excels in ping-pong, a skill he honed during his tenure at LA startups.

Nick Locking has held key positions in several reputable organizations, including being the former CTO at BuildMyHealth®, CTO at Only Sports, Software Engineering Manager at Pray.com, Lead Software Engineer at Ring, Whisper, and Flipagram, and Senior Software Engineer at Grindr, Perceptive Development, TUI Interactive Media, IDC, and Hewlett-Packard (including DEC/Compaq).