Nick Durkin

CTO

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States23 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led critical infrastructure for U.S. government.
  • Developed patents for anti-fraud technologies.
  • Recognized for helping startups achieve market fit.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a focus on DevOps and Big Data solutions.

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SolarisUnixShell ScriptingMicrosoft SQL ServerProcess ImprovementSDLCSQLEnterprise ArchitectureLinuxTeam LeadershipWeb ServicesRequirements AnalysisDatabasesVMwareHadoop

About

Nick Durkin is Field CTO for Harness, the first Software Delivery Platform to use AI to simplify DevOps processes, including CI, CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Costs, Chaos Engineering, and much more. He is responsible for the organization's worldwide field engineering team, post-sales engineering team, and a portion of product. He previously held technical and executive roles at OverOps, DataTorrent, and Zelle (Early Warning), where he ran critical infrastructure for the United States government. He also served as lead architect on the Department of Homeland Security’s Financial Institution – Verifying Identity Credential Service (FIVICS) initiative where he developed several patents for anti-fraud technologies, which are currently in use not only by the federal government but some of the world's largest financial institutions as well. Nick has been recognized for his ability to help multiple early stage companies find market fit, get their first customers, and build a team and strategy for growth and profitability

Experience

23 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
22 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Magentai

Advisor

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Harness

4 roles

Field CTO - Global

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Field CTO, VP Field Engineering

Aug 2020Aug 2023 · 3 yrs

  • Manage all Pre-sales and Post-sales engineering teams globally.

Field CTO, Director Sales Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2019Aug 2020 · 9 mos

Director of Sales Engineering

May 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Exploratory sciences

Advisor, Investor

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Overops

Investor

Jul 2017Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 5 mos

Crowdstrike

Investor

Jul 2017Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Overops

Sr. Solutions Engineer

Mar 2016Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · 797 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

  • OverOps automatically detects and shows DevOps teams when, where and why code breaks in production by showing you the source code, stack trace and variable state which led to an error or exception being thrown.
  • Funded by two tier one VC's in Menlo Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
  • https://www.overops.com/
  • 2016 - Hired as first Sales Engineer.
  • Company Spokesperson - Present all Keynotes, VC Briefings, Webinars, and Public Demonstrations.
  • Built and implemented new Proof Of Value process and documentation. Took multi month POVs down to less than 2 weeks. All POVs where technically accepted and 80% went to purchase.
  • Hired two Sr. Solutions Engineers.
  • 120% of annual quota ($1.2M), ranked #1 Sales Engineer (3 colleagues) and acquired 18 new enterprise customers (Comcast, Bayer, HomeDepot, Zynga, Nutanix, Kaiser-Permanente, Amdocs, Fox Media, Capital One, Intuit, Plantronics, Vivint, etc).

Xentaurs

Investor - Principal Architect

Dec 2015Dec 2023 · 8 yrs · Scottsdale, Arizona

  • THE SEAMLESS INTEGRATION
  • BETWEEN HUMAN CREATIVITY
  • AND MACHINE EFFICIENCY
  • Experience-Driven Digital Transformation Solutions
  • Data focused using Big Data, Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning
  • Bleeding-Edge Dev-Ops Solutions driving best-in-business Automation
  • Application Modernization leveraging Cloud, ITaaS, SDN, Containerization
  • http://www.xentaurs.com/
  • Designed from scratch, Implemented and Deliver Pre-Sales Training for Cisco's Software Division.
  • To date the training is the highest rated training class in Cisco history.
  • KeyNote Speaker at Cisco VT
  • Design, Architect, and Build Enterprise leading Big Data, Cloud, and IOT Solutions.

Datatorrent, inc.

2 roles

Director Solutions Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2015Mar 2016 · 8 mos

  • Hired and built Pre-Sales team including Pre-Sales engineers and Solutions Engineers.
  • Implemented and scaled Pre-Sales Process including 2 week POV Process.
  • Company Spokesperson - Present all Keynotes, VC Briefings, Webinars, and Public Demonstrations.
  • Actively presented to the Board of Directors and participated in the Executive Management Team.

Solutions Engineer

Aug 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • DataTorrent empowers today’s enterprises to experience the full potential – and business impact – of big data, by enabling them to process, analyze, make decisions and take action on data in real-time. The DataTorrent platform is the most robust solution for real-time stream analytics and action for big data, simplifying the development and production of real-time applications. Moreover, the platform addresses the key challenges that have traditionally delayed the full utilization of big data technologies: ease of use and operation at the enterprise level.
  • Hired as first Sales Engineer.
  • Built and implemented new Proof Of Value process and documentation. Took six month enterprise POV process down to less than 2 weeks. 100% of all POVs where technically accepted.
  • Company Spokesperson - Present all Keynotes, VC Briefings, Webinars, and Public Demonstrations.
  • Lead Architect for GE's Predix Data Pipeline, Cap1's real time fraud modeling, AT&T's customer portal unification, and RBC's Big Data Fabric
  • 2015 - 147% of annual quota ($2M), acquired 5 new enterprise customers (GE, AT&T, DirecTV, CapitalOne, RBC.)

Innovative platforms

Investor

Oct 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Scottsdale, Arizona

Trace3

Big Data - Practice Architect

Nov 2013Aug 2014 · 9 mos

  • Architect, engineer, and implement “Big Data” solutions for the more than 2000 Trace3 customers.
  • Act as the Hadoop Security Lead, as well as general spokesman.
  • Define Proof of Concepts, as well as roadmap transitions into production environments.
  • Provide holistic solutions by leveraging both new technologies and an agnostic viewpoint to solve every “Big Data” problem.
  • Fully architected and implemented the only known Split Hadoop Cluster, running one cluster between two data centers. Either DC could be brought down and all Processing and SLA's would still be met. This architecture is what led Qualcomm Ventures to invest $10 Million in MapR.
  • Co-Presented solution to Qualcomm Executive team with M.C. Srivas (CTO MapR)
  • Big Data Practice Spokesperson - Present all Keynotes, VC Briefings, Webinars, and Public Demonstrations.

Carelineup

Investor

Feb 2013Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Scottsdale, Arizona

  • Scheduling per diem Medical Staff seamlessly through auto-booking of repeat staff and regional outreach.

Early warning services

3 roles

Systems Architect

Apr 2012Nov 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Engineered, implemented, and tested “Big Data” platforms and solutions (Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, Gigaspaces, MongoDB).
  • Designed, implemented, tested, and acted as general spokesperson and technical engineer for all proof of concepts and corporate due diligence proceedings.
  • Worked directly with Government agencies (DHS, SSA, AAMVA, Department of State), Mobile Network Operators, and Financial institutions to help define and implement new fraud prevention technologies that span all industries.
  • Lead Architect and spokesperson for U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s FI-VICS initiative.
  • Lead Architect for Department of Labor's Program Fraud initiative.
  • Authored 7 patents around Entity Resolution, Mobile Authentication, Mobile Authorization, Fraud Prevention, and Net Income Analysis

Sr. Systems Administrator

Promoted

Feb 2011Apr 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Designed, implemented, and maintained redundant server solutions for two brand new geographically dispersed datacenters.
  • Moved two datacenters while implementing all new physical hardware.
  • Implemented new encryption techniques that provided proper data protection and separation of duties.
  • Designed and implemented many time saving solutions to both boost productivity and lessen human interaction with production systems, as well as increased network throughput and overall server performance and stability.

Linux Systems Administrator

Dec 2010Feb 2011 · 2 mos

Boyce & associates, inc.

Sr. System Administrator

Feb 2007Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Solely responsible for entire domain functionality - All Exchange, SQL, file, application, print, and backup servers: SAN and Virtual Environments; Linux, UNIX, and Windows; network infrastructure; phone\voicemail system; technical purchases; budget proposals and documentation.
  • Sole point of contact for all technical questions and decisions.

Neo consulting llc

Owner

Aug 2003Present · 22 yrs 9 mos · Scottsdale AZ

  • Designing and Implementing Pre-Sales Processes for Startups and Enterprises alike.
  • Consulting with Stealth, Round A-C, and Enterprise sales organizations to properly implement pre-sales processes and procedures in order to scale appropriately.

Mphasis

IT Specialist

Jun 2003Jul 2007 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Provided support for corporate and datacenter infrastructure.
  • Directly responsible for network implementation and maintenance as well as data backup and restores.
  • Coordinated strategies to increase network throughput and redundancy.
  • Supported Windows security to include upkeep of all servers and desktops.
  • Upkeep of Unix\Linux and MAC operating systems along with extensive wireless network support.

Eldorado computing

IT Specialist

Jan 2003Jan 2007 · 4 yrs

  • Provided support for corporate and datacenter infrastructure.
  • Directly responsible for network implementation and maintenance as well as data backup and restores.
  • Coordinated strategies to increase network throughput and redundancy.
  • Supported Windows security to include upkeep of all servers and desktops.
  • Upkeep of Unix\Linux and MAC operating systems along with extensive wireless network support.

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