Spencer Nicol
Principal Platform Engineer
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Nicol is a Principal Platform Engineer with nine years of focused experience building healthcare data platforms that turn raw clinical data into actionable insights to improve quality and reduce cost. He has led end-to-end delivery—from data modeling, SSMS and PowerShell tooling to visualization and clinical stakeholder engagement—while architecting scalable solutions like automated SQL auditing and data marts for large health systems. At Mayo Clinic Platform he drove design systems, auth utilities, and admin tooling to accelerate secure front-end development, and previously delivered web-component strategies and embeddable UI tech at b.well. Spencer pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a pragmatic product mindset, evidenced by tools like HCPosh that automate documentation and source control for data teams. Fluent in practical cross-team collaboration, he also brings uncommon early-career experience in investor reporting and multilingual mission work that sharpened his operational discipline and communication.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DevMountainBS, Finance, BS, Finance at University of Utah - David Eccles School of BusinessDiploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at BinghamAS, Business, AS, Business at Salt Lake Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (97)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
snicol21/ourwardapp
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 207 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 8 months
churchnextjs
HealthCatalyst/hcposh
May 2018 - May 2021
HCPosh is a Powershell module that provides some useful functions and tools when working with data in the Health Catalyst Analytics Platform. Key Features include 1) Split SAM Designer hcx files into smaller files for source control using it's built-in column-level SQL Parser, developed using the Microsoft.SqlServer.TransactSql.ScriptDom library. 2) Generate a React web application for documentation that contains ERD and Data Flow Diagrams for a professional look and presentation of a subject area mart 3) Integration of Graphviz software for ERD and Data flow diagram generation (pdf, png, and svg)
Contributions:21 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years
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