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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

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