Zach Nickel
Principal System Architect at Oracle
Grain Valley, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Nickel is a Principal System Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and optimizing enterprise systems, currently contributing to Oracle after a long tenure at Cerner. He blends deep infrastructure and performance expertise—spanning Python/Pandas, SQL, Linux/Windows, Oracle DB, WebSphere, Citrix, and performance testing—with modern DevOps toolchains like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible. Known for preferring the right tool for the job, he focuses on measurable improvements in reliability and throughput while coaching teams to achieve more than individuals can alone. Based in Grain Valley, Missouri, he pairs technical rigor with a creative side as a musician and discipline from fitness, traits that underpin his collaborative leadership and practical problem-solving.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems at Evangel University
Github Skills (42)
notebook10
fluent-bit10
logging10
fluentd10
materialize10
monitoring9
linux9
material-ui9
css9
prometheus9
cli9
promql9
developer-tools9
stream-processing9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nicknickel/nicknickel.github.io
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
nicknickel/awesome-notes
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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