James Nicholls
Head Of Infrastructure And Operations
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Nicholls is Head of Infrastructure and Operations with 11 years of experience building resilient, secure platforms across internet-security and telecommunications SaaS. Trained in Computer Science at Oxford, he progressed from developer and data scientist roles at Netcraft to platform and infrastructure leadership at Dstny, combining hands-on engineering with operational strategy. He specialises in scaling complex distributed systems, optimizing reliability and incident response, and embedding security practices into everyday operations. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous technical challenges into repeatable, auditable processes that support fast product iteration. A pragmatic tinkerer as well as a manager, he retains deep curiosity about data-driven service improvement and system observability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Oxford
Stackoverflow
48reputation
2kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (10)
circles10
points10
worldmap10
eclipse-plugin6
internet-explorer6
asp-net-mvc6
irrlicht6
dll6
grafana5
robustness1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ryft/MumbleInfo
Oct 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
ryft/FantasyLeague
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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