Nowell Strite
Cloud Architect
Experience
Cloud Architect (NGC Platform)
NVIDIA
- Building foundational web technology for the NGC Platform, enabling cloud-native GPU-accelerated services across Omniverse, DriveSIM, and NGC.
Principal Applications Architect (Web Platform Team)
Oracle
- Turned an Innovation Day prototype into a critical visual workflow tool for collecting, comparing, publishing, and deploying application configurations across product lines—reducing implementation and setup costs by 50%.
- Architected the migration of 50+ customer energy insight widgets from iframes to native custom elements, drastically improving load time and integration experience.
- Led the ingress routing datacenter migration to Oracle Cloud, converting 20,000+ lines of hand-crafted nginx/HAProxy configuration into tested, consistent F5 iRule-driven ingress rules.
Software Architect
Opower (acquired by Oracle)
- Hired, mentored, and led backend and frontend web platform engineers.
- Built sales demo injection tools to configure real product demos on demand, injected directly into customer sites with full branding match.
- Led merger & acquisition licensing compliance audit and remediation across a diverse set of applications and repositories.
- Developed a Slack bot that became central to organization-wide workflows, surfacing JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, Nomad, and PagerDuty context into conversations.
Senior Software Developer
Opower (acquired by Oracle)
- Turned an Innovation Day project into the foundational SDK and production content server powering all client-facing websites and embedded SDK—serving over one million requests per day.
- Established a Docker-based autoscaling Jenkins infrastructure in AWS CloudFormation with a standardized Groovy Pipeline DSL for CI/CD.
- Built an application relationship graph visualization tool for discoverability and onboarding across the microservice ecosystem.
Principal Engineer
WiserTogether, Inc.
- Led development of an interactive D3.js-powered healthcare decision visualization tool.
- Developed a foundational JavaScript framework for external contractors built on Backbone.js.
- Established automated frontend testing with Mocha/Chai/Karma and open-sourced several Backbone.js testing libraries.
Director of Software Engineering
Draker Laboratories
- Architected a scalable time-series data system replacing MySQL with Clojure, Cassandra, and RabbitMQ.
- Established Agile processes that moved the team from monthly to multiple-per-week releases.
- Designed and led a technical product merger in two months for differentiation at the largest industry trade show.
- Grew the engineering team from 5 to 15 members spanning QA, Design, DevOps, and Development.
- Automated internationalization (i18n) of the web application into Japanese.
Senior Manager of Technology Solutions
Public Broadcasting Service
- Launched the nationally recognized PBS LearningMedia service powering 40+ PBS/partner educational sites.
- Architected the RESTful API for the educational content service behind PBS LearningMedia.
- Designed and converted the system to auto-scaling, load-balanced clusters with configuration management for automated deployments.
- Managed a team of 5 developers plus off-site contractors, growing the technical team from 2 to 6.
- Crafted and implemented a software development lifecycle tailored to the culture of PBS.
Contributions & Recognition
- Patent #US20200226697A1 — Interactive analytics platform responsive to data inquiries
- NodeJS prom-client — Improved Prometheus metrics client performance by 70%
- JSON Forms — Improved rendering performance by 90%
- AVA test runner — Added test logging capabilities
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, College of Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2000 – 2004 — Dean's List, 3.4 GPA
Skills
NodeJSReactJavaScriptPythonD3WebpackDockerJenkinsNginxRubyRailsDjangoClojureCassandraMySQLGit