Rochester, MN

Nicholas Campion

CTO & AI Transformation Architect

Bridging the gap between executive vision and hands-on engineering. Leading the shift from conventional programming to AI-augmented development.

I'm a sitting CTO who actually builds. While most technology executives manage from a distance, I architect systems hands-on—using Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Python daily to ship production infrastructure. My focus is helping organizations transition from "writing code" to architecting intelligence: building the workflows, data layers, and human-AI feedback loops that turn generative AI from a novelty into a compounding operational advantage.

2025 – Present Current

Chief Technology Officer

XBE · Remote

Driving AI initiatives, development team performance, and technology strategy for a logistics platform focused on heavy materials and construction.

Sep 2022 – Jul 2025

Chief Technology Officer

Digital Fleet · Rochester, MN

Led technology strategy and built teams focused on research, development, and delivery of software mission-critical to the construction industry. Acquired by Command Alkon in 2025.

Mar 2020 – Sep 2022

Product Owner for Watson AIOps

IBM · Rochester, MN

Worked at the confluence of software architecture, product, and offering management to deliver DevOps automation powered by AI/ML. Helped lead the team powering IBM's AI automation platform across Kubernetes, OpenShift, and machine learning model training.

May 2016 – Dec 2019

Vice President of Product

Naviga · Rochester, MN

Managed the strategic synchronization and delivery of products across the product ecosystem, with more than 50 products world-wide being actively developed on four continents.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2016

Principal Engineer & Director of Mobile

DoApp, Inc. · Rochester, MN

Developed and drove the mobile product pipeline for iOS and Android, serving more than 12 million users every month. Built an industry-leading mobile news syndication platform delivering content and digital advertising at scale.

Dec 2005 – Oct 2010

Cloud Computing Development Lead & Software Engineer

IBM · Rochester, MN

Technical leadership on team formulating and developing POWER-processor based cloud infrastructure offerings. Architected and implemented management systems for virtualization of software in IBM POWER environments before moving into general virtual machine management. Earlier, designed and developed collaboration software and services for the IBM iSeries.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2023

City Council Member, Ward 3

City of Rochester, MN

Served on the city council with a focus on zoning policy, financial and tax theory, and the future of technology in city management and services.

Patent Inventor

US-8706869-B2 · Multiple patents in enterprise software systems

Languages & Tools

Python Java Kotlin Swift Claude Code Codex OpenAI API MCP n8n AWS SageMaker Postgres

Architecture

AWS Apache Iceberg OpenTelemetry Event-Driven Machine Learning LLM Applications

Leadership

DevOps Transformation Engineering Culture AI-Augmented SDLC Dev Finance Contract Management Cloud Cost Strategy