Thom Nichols Email & Phone Number

Rhode Island, United States

East Greenwich, Ri, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Building new products and services to help developers be more awesome at SendGrid Labs Providence.During my time at SendGrid Labs, I was part of the 3-person team responsible for Loader.io (http://loader.io). This team handled new development, maintenance, support and devops for the product. The majority of my work involved new feature development of the Ruby on Rails web frontend, which included a Coffeescript and SASS client side. We released a major redesign of the app which you can read about here http://goo.gl/awJBPn and here: http://goo.gl/t7mfJW.

Boston, Ma, Us

Team lead for the Advanced Technology group. We do hardware and software R&D to find new technology to bring state-of-the-art solutions to the clean tech industry.I'm a key contributor to the OpenADR 2.0 spec, an international standard for smart grid communication. I helped develop both the HTTP and XMPP spec for OpenADR, and my team is currently working on open source implementations for both client and server components of the spec. Past projects have touched on a big data storage platform based on MongoDB, low-latency bidirectional M2M communication, low power wireless metering and lots of RAD prototyping. AT has also led the development of multiple iterations of our custom Linux/ARM smart metering hardware. We use whatever the best tool is for the job - lots of Python, Ruby, SQLite, Mongo, Node.js, erlang etc.

Maintainer of the open source HTTPBuilder framework. HTTPBuilder is a robust HTTP client API for the Groovy JVM language, which allows developers to quickly connect to REST APIs, create versatile web spiders, or automate uploading/ downloading of web resources.HTTPBuilder includes automatic parsing for most common content-types such as JSON, HTML, XML and supports most common security protocols such as SSL, OAuth and certificate authentication.The project has now been handed off to Jason Gritman, who continues to maintain it here: https://github.com/jgritman/httpbuilder

Teach intro to software programming (Python) and Windows operating system administration courses.

Developed portions of the Ajax UI for rumblecard.com, including the online image editor and dynamic checkout system.

Toronto, On, Ca

Enterprise Java developer, doing web applications and data publishing workflows. Heavy reliance on XML processing and distributed workflow systems using JMS.Developed framework components used for several large, J2EE data publishing workflow systems. Utilized SAX, Hibernate, Spring, GWT, FreeMarker and JMS. Test suite used HSQL and Spring Mock.Team member for public records data publishing project. Assisted project manager by mentoring & task-tracking several interns. Unit test suite used Cobertura test coverage reporting. Utilized JAXB, Spring, Hibernate, IBM WebSphere, Oracle 10g.Web user interface for publishing legal filings and motions. Utilized Groovy, Grails, AJAX, EMC Documentum, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Script.aculo.us.

Built online peer evaluation system for Online Learning department. This product allowed students to submit reviews of team members for instructor- created evaluations; including multiple reporting views for the instructor. Freelance project; single developer. Performed full software development lifecycle: Gathered requirements & feedback from customers, implemented change requests & delivered iterative builds for customer beta testing. System has gone live and supports hundreds of users with low maintenance. Application is XHTML and CSS standards compliant. Utilized ASP.NET, C#, AJAX, MS SQL Server, JavaScript with Prototype.js, & custom attribute-driven persistence framework similar to JPA.