Nick Davis
RESUME
The work, without the sales pitch.
A straightforward view of where I have worked, what I owned, and what changed.
The downloadable resume has the full detail. The summary below covers the main arc: hands-on infrastructure, healthcare production systems, platform engineering, cloud operations, and leadership of distributed teams.
CURRENT FOCUS
Platform engineering
SRE + reliability
Cloud operations + cost
Data platforms + observability
Engineering leadership
CAREER SNAPSHOT
Syndigo / Edgenet
2015–2026
Director of Platform Engineering and DevOps
- Led platform engineering, SRE, cloud operations, developer delivery, and production reliability for a global SaaS company.
- Worked across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, CI/CD, observability, identity, and more than 100 environments.
- Reduced recurring cloud spend by about $4 million a year without slowing the business down.
- Built a distributed U.S.–India, high-trust team that had no voluntary attrition during eleven years of leadership.
Qualifacts Systems
2009–2015
Senior Manager, Platform Engineering and Infrastructure
- Owned production infrastructure for a healthcare SaaS platform serving more than 20,000 behavioral-health professionals each day.
- Managed Linux and Unix systems, VMware, storage, networking, Java application platforms, monitoring, disaster recovery, and database operations.
- Built formal incident-response and root-cause practices and helped keep services available during the 2010 Nashville flood.
Earlier work
1997–2012
Support, systems, media, and consulting
- Ran an independent infrastructure consulting business in San Francisco, New York, and Nashville.
- Worked in technology publishing and television at IDG, TechTV, and VeriaTV.
- Managed ad delivery and banner trafficking at Travel Ad Network.
- Supported dial-up networking, TCP/IP, Unix, and desktop operating systems at NetHelp International.
TECHNICAL RANGE
Cloud + platforms
Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, VMware, Linux, Unix, AIX, Windows Servers
Delivery + operations
GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Spinnaker, Jenkins, SonarQube, incident management, SRE
Data + observability
Elasticsearch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, APM, large-scale distributed data platforms, AI-assisted log and metrics analysis
EDUCATION
B.B.A. in Project Management and Information Systems
in progress, University of Maine at Presque Isle