Caige Nichols
Lead Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolCaige Nichols is a seasoned lead software engineer with 18 years of experience building and operating web and payments platforms from startup to enterprise scale, currently leading engineering at New Relic. Based in Tempe, AZ, he blends deep infrastructure and SRE experience with full‑stack fluency—especially Docker, Go, and JavaScript—having driven containerization, payment rails, and high‑performance APIs across multiple companies. He’s shipped front‑end rewrites, backend systems in Ruby/Python/Node, and ledger integrations using Stellar and ACH, often bridging product and ops to accelerate delivery. Known for developer advocacy and tooling (test frameworks, CI workflows, Dockerized stacks), he frequently makes environments easier for teams to adopt and contribute to. Early curiosity about tinkering on a Tandy evolved into a practical obsession with pragmatic, maintainable systems that enable the next team to stand taller.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaReligious Studies, History and Mathematics, Religious Studies, History and Mathematics at Mesa Community College
Github Skills (200)
testing10
visual-studio10
ecosystem10
hashicorp10
terragrunt10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
container-image10
assemble10
terraform10
docker-compose10
editor10
graph10
microsoft10
facebook10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
caiges/Ruby-RC4
Jul 2011 - Apr 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
rc4rc4-algorithm
caiges/roombatron
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:11 PRs, 18 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years
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