Nick Davis
PLATFORM ENGINEERING + TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP
I build reliable platforms and the teams that run them.
Twenty-nine years in technology, from dial-up support and Unix systems to global SaaS, cloud platforms, and engineering leadership.
I have been the person fixing the outage, designing the platform, managing the budget, and explaining the tradeoff to executives. That range is still how I work.
Most of my recent work has been in platform engineering, SRE, cloud operations, observability, and developer delivery. I stay close enough to the systems to know what is real and far enough back to see where priorities, process, or ownership are getting in the way.
AT A GLANCE
29 YEARS
Working in technology
17+ YEARS
Leading engineering teams
$4M
Recurring annual cloud savings
18,000+
Brands supported by the platforms I led
WHAT I AM GOOD AT
Platform + reliability
Making complicated production systems easier to run, safer to change, and less dependent on heroics.
Engineering teams
Building teams with clear ownership, honest communication, and room for engineers to grow into leaders.
Cost + simplification
Finding waste, reducing unnecessary complexity, and tying technical decisions to what the business can afford.
HOW I WORK
Start with facts. Make ownership clear. Fix the system, not the person.
I am not interested in transformation theater. I like practical plans, visible tradeoffs, and improvements people can feel in their daily work. I am direct, calm under pressure, and hands-on when being hands-on is useful.
WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
A Director, Senior Director, AVP, or VP role where platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, cloud operations, or application services are important to the business.