Alexander Nicholas
Senior Specialist, Digitalisation
Selangor, Malaysia
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Top SchoolAlexander Nicholas is a Senior Specialist in Digitalisation with 15 years’ experience blending software engineering, game design, and front-end development across higher education and enterprise settings in Malaysia. He builds interactive experiences and production-grade interfaces using Unity, React Native, Flutter and modern design tools (Figma, Adobe suite), while also bringing strong multimedia skills in 3D, audio and video production. At BASF he progressed from Frontend Software Engineer to a digitalisation specialist, reflecting a mix of hands-on coding and program coordination experience from academia to industry. His open-source contributions to the ClusterLabs resource-agents—enhancing SAP database agents and adding support for Sybase ASE and SAP HANA—demonstrate deep practical knowledge of database administration and cluster recovery beyond typical frontend roles. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex system requirements into usable, visually polished products and resilient backend integrations.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Games Development at University of Staffordshire
English, Malay
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Github Skills (10)
sh10
script10
shell10
database-administration10
clustering10
scripting10
high-availability10
oracles9
sap-hana9
oracle9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
ClusterLabs/resource-agents
Jun 2011 - Mar 2016
Combined repository of OCF agents from the RHCS and Linux-HA projects
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `SAPDatabase` resource agent within the `clusterlabs/resource-agents` repository. Their work involved significant modifications to the `sapdb.sh` and `sapdb-nosha.sh` scripts, specifically addressing database startup, stopping, monitoring, and recovery procedures. These changes included adding support for new database types like Sybase ASE and SAP HANA, as well as incorporating improvements related to SAPHostAgent integration and database user authentication. The contributions showcase a deep understanding of database administration and cluster management.
linuxagentsocf
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