Summary
Ryan Nickel is a Mobile Staff Engineer with 12+ years of cross‑platform development experience, currently shaping mobile strategy at Xello and leading Lakeside Labs. As founder/owner of Lakeside Labs and former co‑founder of Volu.me, he has built and scaled iPhone and Android applications, web services, and AWS-based infrastructures to handle high traffic. His track record includes the NXNE BlackBerry application, which drew 20,000 downloads in two weeks, and a stadium‑level beacon giveaway platform used by artists across North America. He has collaborated with brands like IBM, BlackBerry, and Lexmark, and is passionate about push messaging to keep users instantly informed. Based in Old Toronto and an alumnus of the University of Waterloo, he blends hands‑on coding with a product‑minded approach to deliver sophisticated, user‑friendly experiences.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo