10 Nordstrom engineering leaders
Ian Heisser, Senior Director Of Engineering at Nordstrom, is one of ten Nordstrom engineering leaders listed here, alongside people who hold or have held senior director of software engineering, inventory technology and store commerce engineering roles at the company. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Nordstrom from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Anirban Nag
LinkedInExperience: Senior Engineering Director, Store Commerce and Restaurants · Nordstrom
Senior Engineering Director, Store Commerce and Restaurants at Nordstrom since July 2026, based in the Seattle area; the role entry describes leading engineering and technology strategy for the store commerce and restaurants organization. Former Senior Technology Director at lululemon (2020–2026), IT Director, Ecommerce & Enterprise Engineering at Sur La Table (2018–2020) and Senior Manager IT at REI (2014–2018).
Ashley Hansen
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Credit, Fraud & Customer · Nordstrom
Director of Engineering - Credit, Fraud & Customer at Nordstrom since January 2024, based in the Seattle area. Former Director of Engineering for Credit & Fraud (2023–2024), Credit (2022–2023) and Finance & HR (2021–2022), and Senior Manager, Technology - Finance (2019–2021) at Nordstrom.
Benjamin Sherry
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering, Platform Services · Nordstrom
Director of Engineering, Platform Services at Nordstrom since May 2026, based in Seattle; the role entry describes leading Core Platform Services with 30 engineers and program managers across four sub-teams. Former Associate Director - Technology, Personalization (2021–2026) at AT&T, and a senior technical director role in infrastructure and platform operations for att.com (2007–2014).
Chad Currie
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Store Selling Experiences · Nordstrom
Director of Engineering - Store Selling Experiences at Nordstrom since August 2023, based in Edmonds, Washington; the role entry describes supporting point of sale across more than 10,000 registers in 370+ stores. Chad Currie also held several Senior Engineering Manager roles at Nordstrom from 2013, one still listed as current.
Ian Heisser
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Of Engineering · Nordstrom
Senior Director Of Engineering at Nordstrom since January 2022, based in the Seattle area; the role entry describes supporting engineers and program managers building customer experiences for online shopping and checkout. Ian Heisser also lists Director Of Engineering at Nordstrom since 2020, and was Director Of Technology at Expedia (2015–2020).
Jaswinder Singh
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · Nordstrom
Senior Director of Software Engineering at Nordstrom since August 2026, based in Seattle; the profile describes leading the engineering teams that decide what can be sold, at what price and availability, for which customer. Former Director of Software Engineering at Nordstrom (2021–2026), Sr. Manager, Alexa (Alexa Routines & Automation, Privacy) (2018–2021) and Sr. Software Development Manager, International Technology (2017–2018) at Amazon, and Sr. Manager at Expedia Group (2014–2017).
Javed Siddiqui
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering, Inventory Technology · Nordstrom
Sr. Director of Engineering, Inventory Technology at Nordstrom since December 2024, based in Seattle. Former Sr. Manager, Software Dev, Alexa Shopping at Amazon (2019–2024), Software Development Manager, Amazon Display Ads Server at Amazon (2018–2019), Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (2017–2018), and Director of Software Development - Core Banking and Billing Systems at Infor (2013–2017).
Jeff Raffo
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director of Engineering · Nordstrom
Sr. Director of Engineering at Nordstrom since February 2020, based in Kirkland, Washington. Former Director Of Engineering (2015–2020) and Group Manager (2013–2015) at Nordstrom, and Director, Information Technology at DTI LLC (2008–2013) and Director, IT Operations at Daticon (2007–2008).
Micheal Leavitt
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director Engineering · Nordstrom
Senior Director Engineering at Nordstrom since August 2021, based in Seattle. Former Director Engineering (2018–2021), Senior Engineering Manager (2017–2018), Engineering Manager (2016–2017) and Senior Engineer (2014–2016) at Nordstrom; the current entry lists the Engineering and Technical department at director level.
Paul McCallick
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Director of Engineering - Inventory Positioning · Nordstrom
Former Senior Director of Engineering - Inventory Positioning at Nordstrom (2023–2026), where the role entry describes teams and software for inventory forecasting and optimization across 10 million SKUs and 500 stores. Paul McCallick was also Senior Director Of Engineering - Supply Chain Operations (2019–2023), Director Of Engineering - Omni Services (2018–2019) and Director Of Engineering - Product Discovery (2017–2018) at Nordstrom.
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