Jeff Nielsen
The Common Application CTO
Arlington, VA
Jeff helps people and organizations improve in the way they work together to produce software.
Jeff is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at The Common Application, directing development, operations, and support for the high-volume system that over 1/3 of U.S. high-school seniors use to apply to college. He was formerly SVP of Engineering at 3Pillar Global, where he led 600 developers and testers worldwide in the delivery of over 100 products. Prior to 3Pillar, he was CTO / SVP of Delivery at Santeon, providing executive-level coaching to federal agencies and Fortune 100 companies making large-scale transitions to agile. Jeff also spent three years as Head of Engineering at TrapWire, overseeing 50 production releases of the company's flagship SaaS product.