Thom Nichols
Team Manager, Software at VoltServer®
Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolThom Nichols is a pragmatic software leader with 17 years of experience building energy delivery and clean-tech systems, currently managing software teams at VoltServer. He blends hands-on engineering with product delivery across embedded Linux, IoT, and smart grid protocols, and was a contributor to the OpenADR 2.0 spec for both HTTP and XMPP. Comfortable in polyglot environments, he favors the best tool for the job—Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Python and messaging stacks—and has shipped projects from ARM-based firmware to high-throughput middleware. His open-source work includes maintenance of HTTPBuilder and cross-platform build and CI improvements for widely used repos like node.bcrypt.js, reflecting a focus on reliable, reproducible build and deployment. Based in Rhode Island, he’s not looking for new opportunities but continues to drive innovation where energy systems meet software.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (41)
date-formatting10
jvm-languages10
programming-language10
docker10
github-ci10
groovy10
calendars10
date-formatter10
date-format10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
javas10
datetime-format10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
kelektiv/node.bcrypt.js
Oct 2017 - May 2025
bcrypt for NodeJs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 28 comments in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thom's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the bcrypt.js project. They replaced the `node-pre-gyp` build system with `prebuildify` and implemented cross-platform builds using Docker, targeting various architectures like x64, arm32, and arm64. Furthermore, they established a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, enhanced the build process, and adjusted test timeouts to accommodate cross-platform builds.
bcryptnodejs
groovy/groovy-core
Oct 2008 - Feb 2010
former home of the groovy programming language, moved to https://github.com/apache/groovy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thom primarily contributed to the Groovy programming language core, focusing on enhancing its Date and Calendar functionalities. Their work included implementing new GDK methods for date formatting, parsing, and timezone handling, as well as adding static methods for parsing dates from strings. They also added tests and documentation for the new methods.
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