Christopher Nicholson
Director District A at RTD
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Nicholson is a technical operations leader and civic-minded strategist with 11 years of experience building data-driven tools and policy programs at the intersection of startups, government, and fintech. He has hands-on engineering experience—developing internal tooling with JavaScript, Python, SQL and Retool for financial services—while also shepherding multi-stakeholder policy initiatives that helped immigrant founders raise over $40M with university partners. As cofounder of Global EIR and partner at Venture Politics he blends program management, advocacy, and fundraising with practical data skills (Salesforce, NGP VAN, SQL) to launch scalable initiatives. He has run voter-targeting programs and political campaigns, advised federal offices, and secured C‑level approvals for strategic engineering investments. Based in Denver, he now serves as Director — District A at RTD, bringing a rare mix of technical fluency and public-sector campaign experience to transportation and civic technology challenges. An otherwise unseen throughline in his work is translating tactical engineering decisions into persuasive policy and funding outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
B.A., B.A. at University of Southern CaliforniaReed College
English
Github Skills (200)
markdown10
site-generator10
developer-tools10
json10
lighthouse10
audit10
static-site10
auditing10
printer10
metalsmith10
performance-analysis10
jekyll10
liquid10
javascript9
monitoring9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
datapolitical/paprika-exporter
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Export recipe data out of Paprika into YAML
Contributions:8 releases, 104 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
exportpaprikarecipeyaml
datapolitical/chrisfnicholson
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
My blog
Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 1552 commits in 2 years
my-blog
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