Colin Nichols
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Nichols is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-intensive systems, currently at Datadog after leading engineering at AI-driven Narrativ. He has a strong track record modernizing time-series platforms—owning rewrites, a Rust migration, and a patent-pending compression codec to improve elasticity and efficiency. At Narrativ he grew teams and products, doubled headcount and clients, and kept 99.9% uptime through high-traffic events while running major migrations like Python 2 to 3 on schedule. Early-stage experience as employee #1 at an e-commerce startup and hands-on work in optics and defense programs gives him a rare blend of product-minded MVP delivery and rigorous systems engineering. Based in Ridgefield, CT, he combines mentoring and organizational design with deep technical execution across languages and platforms. Colleagues would note his penchant for shipping pragmatic infrastructure improvements that materially reduce ops and scale cost-effectively.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering at Dartmouth College
Github Skills (124)
kml10
toolbox10
python-client10
spectrum10
dialect9
rabbitmq9
messaging9
parquet9
confluent9
celery9
web-components9
geospatial9
librdkafka9
aws9
confluent-cloud9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hellonarrativ/spectrify
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Export Redshift data and convert to Parquet for use with Redshift Spectrum or other data warehouses.
Contributions:10 releases, 75 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 4 months
dataframesexportparquetredshiftsinger
c-nichols/caster
Mar 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
pythonvoice-programmingdragonflyspeech-recognitionvoice
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