Colin Nichols
Engineering Lead at Gartner
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Nichols is an engineering lead based in Denver with 11 years of professional software experience and a strong foundation in front-end engineering and UI/UX. He has progressed from hands-on web development and accessibility-focused design work—leading USAID.gov redesign and 508 compliance efforts—to senior engineering roles at Gartner where he now guides teams. Colin combines practical expertise in React, D3, Storybook, Sass and responsive frameworks with experience coaching peers on charting, layout and cross-browser consistency. A parent, cyclist and snowboarder, he brings the patience and persistence of an outdoor enthusiast to solving complex product and accessibility challenges. Notably, his background includes long-term contracting that produced reusable front-end frameworks and design leadership across public-sector data portals.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Rappahannock County High SchoolUniversity of HartfordBSIT, BSIT at George Mason University
Stackoverflow
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46kreached
29answers
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Github Skills (20)
jekyll8
parquet6
amazon-redshift6
floating-point6
api6
github-pages6
filewriter6
aws-lambda6
python6
amazon-athena6
r6
serverless5
gateway5
lambda-functions5
lambda4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
colinnic/18f-dryrun
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 days
colinnichols/website
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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