Nicky West
Director Of IT at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicky West is an IT leader with 13 years of progressive experience building and running web application, infrastructure, and user services teams at the University of Washington Information School. As Director of IT, she combines hands-on architecture and development roots—PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Docker, clustered databases and responsive design—with strategic responsibilities in security, vendor management, and roadmap planning. She has a track record of mentoring engineers, designing reusable core systems, and delivering reliable, production-grade platforms that support teaching, research, and business needs. Based in Seattle and grounded in a BS in Computer Science from Wayne State, Nicky is equally comfortable in code and in the boardroom, translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Wayne State University
Github Skills (64)
docker-image10
docker-compose10
laravel10
php10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
laravel-framework10
derived9
remote-development9
ftp-client9
portainer9
docker9
docker-swarm9
namespaces9
minikube8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickwest/EloquentForms
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 235 commits in 4 years 8 months
phpderivedeloquent-modelslaraveleloquent
nickwest/blossom-php
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
Edmonds's Blossom Algorithm in PHP
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
phpblossomblossom-algorithmphp7
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