Nick Colyer
VP - Digital Engineering at Skylines Academy
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Colyer is a seasoned cloud and digital engineering leader with 11 years of enterprise experience, currently VP of Digital Engineering at AHEAD where he heads AI, Data, App Modernization and Platform Engineering initiatives. He has progressed through hands-on architecture and delivery roles—chief architect to senior director—building cloud adoption frameworks, automation IP, and managed outcomes for Fortune 500 clients across finance, healthcare, transportation and retail. Nick combines executive-facing strategy with deep technical fluency in AWS, Azure, ServiceNow, DevOps and SRE practices, driving large-scale modernization and measurable consumption growth. He also co-founded Skylines Academy to train the next generation of IT talent, reflecting a long-standing commitment to enablement alongside delivery. A pragmatic problem-solver, he blends datacenter migration and virtualization roots with modern cloud-native practices to help enterprises operate like startups at enterprise scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Certification, MCSE, MCSA, MCSE Security, Certification, MCSE, MCSA, MCSE Security at Microsoft / CompTiaUniversity of South AfricaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nickcolyer/puppet-control
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
refactoredpro/AI-102-Course
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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