Summary
Paul Nickerson is a manager and technical leader with 16 years of experience building production clinical AI, LLM platforms, and resilient cloud infrastructure to improve patient safety and care quality. Currently leading AI/QI modeling and technical operations at UF Health, he combines hands-on SRE and DevOps expertise with applied machine learning to shepherd models from research to hospital production. His background spans systems engineering, monitoring platform design, large-scale log and metrics pipelines, and novel clinical data workflows—he even wrote a deep-learning tool to deidentify 12,000 biopsy notes. Paul is skilled at translating institutional needs into repeatable infrastructure (IaC, CI/CD, PostgreSQL cluster templates, CMDB integrations) and has a track record of deploying scalable Kubernetes and AWS solutions under demanding timelines. Based in Gainesville, FL, he pairs biomedical engineering training and clinical informatics with pragmatic operational rigor to deliver auditable, reliable AI systems in healthcare.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Fe College
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cum Laude, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Cum Laude at University of Florida