Summary
Alexander 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 Tasmania
HSC, HSC at Castle Hill High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Wollongong
French, English