Nick V. Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Zionsville, Indiana, Us

- Hired and led a Platform Engineering team of 4 engineers handling DevEx, SRE, and Security domains.- Created a platform service in 5 months on AWS EKS including Terraform IAC, GitLab CI, Argo CD, and Grafana/OpenTelemetry observability/alerting where none existed before.- Discovered and fixed high severity security issue, then worked to build tooling and process to prevent similar issues.- Collaborated with leadership to set technical direction and standards for all Engineering.- Organized a mentorship program to help engineers learn and grow across experience levels.

San Francisco, California, Us

Unfortunately short tenure caused by company shutdown, but I was able to accomplish a few things:— Planned out a paved path for (AWS) Kubernetes services.— Deduplicated several parts of the Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code repository.— Organized the postmortem for a large security incident.— Reigned in errant usage of DataDog, accomplishing significant budget savings.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

— Spearheaded migration to (Azure) Kubernetes by advising on policy, consulting with each engineering team, and building a tool that automated the creation of Kubernetes and Terraform configurations for 20+ services.— Led the adoption and migration of monitoring, alerting, and observability tools like Prometheus & Grafana, saving the company thousands of dollars and increasing reliability.— Mentored other engineers leading to role growth in their roles/responsibilities and directly helping retain high performing team members.

Cupertino, California, Us

— Helped ensure smooth launch for Apple TV+ service by monitoring and maintaining incoming service telemetry data.— Built tools to ensure reliable performance for for Apple TV+, Apple Music, and App Store.— Led the group's transition to Kubernetes by packaging applications, authoring configs, building deployment pipelines, and creating monitoring/alerting on new Kubernetes environments.— Built alerting tools and API to enrich, log, and deliver alerts.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

— Ensured stability and reliability of Identity services which responded to over 700K queries/second.— Lead roll-out of new microservices including container, monitoring, and scaling setup.— Coded updates to tools used to ensure safe ramps for A/B testing of new features.— Led organizing and prioritizing of quarterly goals for the Identity team.

This is a personal project that I keep running with minimal support, it's still on the App Store though.— Founded company to create a watch-later service for internet video at ToWatchList.com— Developed Objective-C iOS app with iOS extension and adaptive UI for iPhone and iPad— Designed web application on top of the CakePHP MVC framework— Coded JavaScript for scanning bookmarklet as well as jQuery and AJAX based UI functionality— Created Javascript bookmarklet using JSONp, and jQuery & CSS scripting for the website UI— Administered LAMP web server virtual machine, including SSL certificates

Pasadena, Ca, Us

— Created new data products and improved product quality for HyTES and MASTER scientific instruments— Programed array-based mathematical analysis operations in Python using NumPy/SciPy to generate data for publication— Created data processing tool chains, including using GDAL and PIL to create geo-corrected visuals in Google Earth (KMLs & KMZs)— Converted Matlab processing pipelines into NumPy array-optimized Python code— Administration of a MySQL database tracking thousands of data products, including Python scripts to update & modify the DB— Flew on HyTES flight campaigns to provide technical support for data acquisition and processing

Pasadena, Ca, Us

— Improved data quality available from the Troposphere Emission Spectrometer, a sensor located on the Aura satellite.— Upgraded and modified a tool built with Shell/Perl/Python scripts used for managing clustered computing for testing and processing— Updated Object-Oriented C++ code for data processing using UML design in IBM ClearCase/Rational Rose.— Programed mathematical analysis operations in IDL & MATLAB to generate data products for publication.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

— Installed, upgraded, & networked hundreds of Linux data processing servers and supporting hardware for TES, MLS, and OCO instruments— Deployed and maintained Nagios data center monitoring system to ensure uptime and reliability— Scripted system installs, management, availability, and inter-device communication— Interfaced with technicians and scientists to maintain, upgrade, and optimize computing clusters

Cupertino, California, Us

— Identified solutions to a wide variety of customer problems and concerns— Diagnosed and repaired computers within tight scheduling limits— Promoted Apple and third-party products (Mac, iPods, and software) to retail customers

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Physics