Chris Nicoll
Director Of DevOps at Consensus
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nicoll is a seasoned DevOps and infrastructure leader with 11 years in senior roles, currently directing DevOps at Consensus where he oversees cross-functional teams, multi-cloud AWS environments, CI/CD toolchains, and SOC 2/CCPA/GDPR compliance. He has a proven track record consolidating pipelines and driving observable, self-healing monitoring and incident response practices across large enterprises including OpenText, Carbonite, and Progressive Leasing. Chris combines hands-on cloud operations and security stewardship—managing penetration testing, third-party risk, and AWS cost optimization—with a pragmatic focus on business continuity and regulatory alignment. He built and scaled global 24/7 support organizations, led cross-discipline DevOps conferences to boost collaboration, and keeps a practical developer mindset from years running his own consulting and development shop. An active contributor to documentation for developer tooling (notably improvements to superfly/docs around flyctl and Elixir integration), he pairs technical writing with operational leadership to make systems and teams more reliable. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he holds a BS in Cybersecurity Information Assurance and brings both tactical execution and strategic vendor negotiation experience to cloud operations.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at West Chester University of PennsylvaniaBS Cybersecurity Information Assurance, BS Cybersecurity Information Assurance at Western Governors UniversityCertifications Information Technology, Certifications Information Technology at PC Training West
Github Skills (6)
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markdown-it9
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elixir6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/docs
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:6 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the documentation of the `superfly/docs` repository. Their work involved updating navigation links, adding new documentation sections, and correcting existing links. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the documentation's accuracy and completeness, particularly concerning the `flyctl` command-line tool and the `Elixir` integration. They modified sidebar navigation and updated content to reflect changes in the project.
clutterstack/blender-rig-mirror
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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