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Pete Nichols

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Co-Founder & VP, Engineering at Lightfield
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Pete Nichols is the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering at Lightfield, an AI-powered CRM platform. His career features senior engineering leadership roles at Tome, Divvy Homes, and Pinterest, where he managed product engineering and developer platform teams. He also worked in product and engineering for The Sims franchise at Electronic Arts and holds a B. S. from Stanford University.

Lightfield is developing a natural language AI CRM that automatically updates itself from customer interactions.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & VP, Engineering
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Pete shows up

Optimistic
Story Driven
Amiable & Agreeable

They agree with others often, so exercise caution when relying on their word. Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials. They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional.

Priorities

Topics Pete cares about

AI-Powered CRM
Co-founded Lightfield to build a CRM that uses natural language AI to automatically update itself from customer interactions.
Developer Platforms
Led the API and Developer Platform teams at Pinterest, building scaled API capabilities to empower partners and extend the platform's ecosystem.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Co-Founder & VP, Engineering
Lightfield
12-2023 - 3-2025
VP, Engineering
Tome
1-2022 - 9-2023
SVP, Engineering
Divvy Homes
11-2020 - 1-2022
Head of Pinterest Developer Platform
Pinterest
1-2019 - 10-2020
Head of Core Product Engineering
Pinterest
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Education
B.S.
Stanford University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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