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Nullstone

Winter 2022 · Active

An easier way to deploy and manage cloud apps

Location: Atlanta, GA, US

Founded: 2020

Team size: 2

About

Nullstone is a suite of tools delivered as a single product that enables developer self-service while accommodating flexibility and control that platform engineers need to maintain secure, compliant, performant, and reliable infrastructure. Nullstone provides a simple developer experience that guides developers through the architecture and release of cloud apps. By default, infrastructure launched through Nullstone is compliance-certified and vetted for security best practices. The software delivery process can be customized per app through external CI/CD tools or IaC tools like Terraform to meet the specific needs of customers or to optimize developer workflow. Nullstone comes with many quality-of-life features that are hard to build with an in-house DevOps/Platform team: Auto-Build/Deploy, Preview Environments, GitOps, and Automatic Secrets Management.

Founders

  • Brad SicklesFounder

    Brad is currently Founder and CEO of Nullstone. Brad spent the first part of his career as a software engineer at various-stage startups and as an independent consultant. In 2013, he joined McKinsey where he launched startups inside large enterprises. He also built and led an internal developer platform serving 1000 engineers hosting ~300 services. In 2018, he joined Bishop Fox where he incubated and founded an offensive security platform.

  • Scott SicklesFounder

    Scott is the co-founder and CTO of Nullstone. Early in his career as a developer, he fell in love with the ability of software to empower people. As CTO of IdentityStream, he helped banks across Asia and Africa serve people without forms of ID through the use of biometrics. As CTO of Listen360, he led successful cloud migrations, digital transformations, and help lead the company to 5x growth and a successful exit. He earned a degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.