Aaron Nichols
Co-Founder At Nodaste
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorAaron Nichols is an experienced engineering leader and platform strategist with 25 years in technology and 17 years building SaaS services including web apps, storage, and video streaming. He has spent the last eight years at Workday growing Platform and Delivery Engineering organizations that accelerate product delivery while improving quality and developer happiness. Aaron specializes in platform engineering, developer experience, continuous delivery, and enabling teams to "run what they build," even in highly regulated environments. He combines hands-on systems and security roots with senior leadership experience across operations, infrastructure, and delivery to create predictable, sustainable outcomes. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he recently expanded into AI engineering and co-founded a startup, signaling a shift toward product-facing platform innovation. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, measurement-driven, and focused on keeping developers in flow while delivering business value.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
kitchen8
test-kitchen8
testing7
driver7
ansible7
python7
webextension7
ssh6
janus6
firefox5
automation5
ruby5
spoon4
docker4
tmux4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adnichols/ai-configs
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 209 pushes in 10 months
adnichols/kitchen-docker-api
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
test-kitchenkitchendockerrubydocker-client
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