Aaron Nichols
AI Engineer And Platform Strategist
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 (27)
test-kitchen9
kitchen9
rake8
python8
ansible8
firefox-webextension8
testing7
thunderbird7
ssh7
preserve7
webextension7
firefox6
automation6
devops6
spoon6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
adnichols/kitchen-docker-api
Mar 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
test-kitchenkitchendockerrubydocker-client
adnichols/docker-spoon
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
tmuxdockerpairgemerm
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