Scott Nicholas
Vice President Of Project Formation
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolScott Nicholas is Vice President of Project Formation at the Linux Foundation, leading the creation and launch of open source, open standards, open hardware, and open data initiatives. Over nine years of experience at the Foundation (and more than a decade in law and finance), he has helped incubate and onboard over 100 projects across communities including CNCF, Hyperledger, Node.js/OpenJS, LF Edge, and LF AI & Data. He combines hands-on legal counsel—formerly a software licensing and transactions attorney—with deep program design expertise to craft governance models, templates, liaison agreements, and acquisition processes for incoming projects. Scott’s background as a Wall Street technology analyst gives him a rare perspective on the intersection of governance, commercial strategy, and community sustainability. Based in Greater Boston, he is known for shaping next-generation governance structures and translating complex legal and technical requirements into practical, launch-ready ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (JD), Doctor of Law (JD) at Stanford Law SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian and History, summa cum laude, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian and History, summa cum laude at Tufts University
Spanish
Github Skills (32)
agenda10
graphql-subscriptions10
financial9
finance9
graphql9
federation8
summarization7
desktop7
attestation6
complexity6
chatbot6
copilot5
nlp5
api5
servo5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scooter99boston/graphql-wg
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Working group notes for GraphQL
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 months
notesgraphql-apigraphql-toolsgroup-notesgraphiql
scooter99boston/1.0
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Community Specification 1.0
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
cdrnimblemercuryspecificationtla
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