James Nichols

James Nichols has a diverse work experience in the technology industry. James is currently working as the Senior Vice President of Technology at SYSO Technologies since October 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Sailthru as an Engineering Manager, where they led a team of three in a DevOps consultancy model for a large-scale marketing automation and data science platform. James was also responsible for managing 500k+ line terraform initiatives and handled AWS Solutions Architecture Professional work for a data center migration project. Before that, James served as the Lead DevOps Engineer and Senior SRE at Sailthru.

At Imprivata, James held the position of Manager of DevOps and Cloud Operations from November 2016 to November 2018. James was responsible for overseeing the DevOps and cloud operations team.

In their earlier career, James worked at EnerNOC as a Principal Engineer, Enterprise Architect, and Performance Engineer. James joined as employee #74 and played a crucial role in scaling the company during its explosive growth period. James ensured the mission-critical application was available 24x7x365 with 100% uptime. James left EnerNOC in August 2016 when the company had over 1500 employees.

James also worked at Intralinks as a Performance Engineer/SRE, specializing in LoadRunner, Excel/Perl coding, Weblogic, Oracle, and capacity planning for large-scale secure workspaces. James started their career at IBM as a Performance Engineer.

Overall, James Nichols has a strong background in technology management, DevOps, cloud operations, and performance engineering. James has experience in leading teams, managing large-scale projects, and ensuring high-performance systems.

James Nichols has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science and two Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees, one in Computer Science and another in Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology, all from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In addition to their degrees, they also hold several certifications, including CP100A: Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals from ROI Training obtained in June 2017, Splunk Certified Admin and Splunk Certified Knowledge Manager from Splunk obtained in October 2014, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional from Amazon Web Services (AWS) obtained in March 2021, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) obtained in July 2020.