Nic Roland Email & Phone Number

Alberta, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Dublin, Ireland

• On-site consulting for clients – Application migration specialist – Productionise/support client applications – Range of different cloud environments – OpenShift/Kubernetes• POC/product development; cloud deployments, web applications, open Source contributions• Administered internal self-service OpenShift cluster• Kubernetes research; application development, best practices, controller development• Developer advocacy; – Documented tooling and best practices for teams – Served an advisory role on internal/external projects – Attend various community/partner events – Spoke about container usage in partner company’s webinar series• Involved in pre-sales efforts – Presentations to clients – Technical overviews/reports• Interviewed potential hires for Kubernetes related roles• Member of organising commitee for internal tech talks, hackathons, sports & social and sci-fi book clubs

Dublin

My early time at DW was spent on the Core Tech team. I was involved in: - Feature development + maintenance a number of in house tools - Maintenance of our backend services/platformEventually I moved to one of the internal products teams where I spent my time: - Porting old services to run in AWS - Developing new features for Call of Duty Black Ops 3 - Redesigning automation tooling - Planning future servicesDuring my time at Demonware, my other responsibilities included: - Development of our automated test suites and CI pipeline - Performance testing changes to backend services - Client support; including occasional on-call [of] duty - Interviewing/onboarding new interns.I've gained exposure to a panoply of technologies including:* Apache * lighttpd * Sphinx search * Protobuffs * MySQL * AWS * Python * Tsung * Diamond * Jira * Zendesk * Bamboo * RPMs + rpm.specs * Linux * Rsync * Nagios

Ireland

Worked on replacement phone book and real-time Luas information Android apps.Strong ownership of Python code that scripted data collection and for manipulating SQLite data for testing purposes on both apps.Operated remotely, daily scrum to communicate progress.

Ireland

I experimented with VST, a SDK for creating audio effects plugins for popular music editing software such as Cubase.I put together a collection of example plugins for common effects (distortion, reverb, wah-wah, an equaliser) each with a user interface to control the effect within Cubase. The collection was to serve as a VST reference for other researchers in the group.