Geoff Nichols
Information Technology Specialist - DevSecOps Solutions Architect
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarGeoff Nichols is an Information Technology Specialist and DevSecOps Solutions Architect with 12+ years leading large-scale cloud and software delivery transformations for government and enterprise organizations. He has architected and operationalized enterprise IaaS platforms, automated CI/CD at scale for hundreds of applications, and embedded Policy-as-Code to align security and compliance with business objectives. Geoff combines hands-on engineering—reducing release cycles from months to weekly deployments—with executive-level strategy, winning unanimous board approval for a four-year migration of 41 mission-critical systems. A pragmatic leader and mentor, he builds repeatable IaC playbooks, reusable automation libraries, and governance models that cut operational overhead and accelerate developer productivity. Based in Fredericksburg, VA, he is known for turning manual, high-risk processes into auditable, on-demand delivery pipelines that sustain long-term resilience.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (158)
pluggable10
automation10
automation-framework10
puppet10
points10
java10
agent10
apt10
hierarchical10
marionette10
shortest-path10
winrm9
jar9
linux9
bolt9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
geoffnichols/hello-github-actions
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
geoffnichols/puppet-agent
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
All of the directions for building a puppet agent package.
Contributions:141 pushes, 104 branches, 7 tags in 2 years 10 months
puppet-agentagentdirectionspuppet
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