Alexander Nicholson
Vice President Of Engineering at TableCheck
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Nicholson is a Vice President of Engineering and seasoned Site Reliability leader with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native platforms, currently based in Tokyo. He specializes in Kubernetes-native operations (EKS), Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD and the HashiCorp stack, and is fluent in Ruby, Python, Elixir and Bash with a preference for Django and Sinatra. Known for turning infrastructure challenges into product outcomes, he leads engineering teams to exceed targets while maintaining strong DevOps and SRE practices. A Computer Science graduate with a cyber security focus, he has won industry awards (including TableCheck Rookie of the Year 2021 and back-to-back GovHack recognitions) and is an active community speaker on DevOps, Elixir and Python. Outside work he builds products and writes about infrastructure, blending hands-on engineering with a creator’s curiosity that fuels practical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
Subject - Remote, Subject - Remote at University of TasmaniaHSC, HSC at Castle Hill High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Wollongong
French, English
Github Skills (200)
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hadoop10
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openstack-swift10
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blob-store10
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branding10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
DragonStuff/apts-jp-to-sql
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Grab aptsjp data, put it in a database. Run queries, send me an alert and help me get the apartment I want!
Contributions:2292 commits, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 3 years
alertgrabapartmentdatabasequeries
tablecheck/kubectl-application-shell
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
Kubectl plugin that spins up a container with image, config & secret mapping matching an existing deployment.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 18 PRs in 5 years
deploymentmatchingkubectlnamespacedocker
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