Brad Sickles
Founder at Nullstone
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Sickles is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable platforms, currently leading Nullstone, a Y Combinator-backed Internal Developer Platform startup. He combines product focus and customer obsession with hands-on infrastructure expertise, having previously scaled Bishop Fox’s CAST security platform to ~1 billion processed events per day and helped secure a $25M Series A. At McKinsey he built an Internal Developer Platform serving 1,000 engineers and 300 workloads, bringing deep DevOps, Agile, and cloud practice to Fortune 500 clients. A contributor to Terraform’s AWS provider, he brings practical cloud-infrastructure coding experience alongside platform strategy. Known for growing high-morale engineering teams and shipping automated, production-grade systems, he blends consultancy breadth with startup execution. Based in Alpharetta, GA, he pairs technical depth from Georgia Tech with a track record of turning security and infrastructure complexity into reliable developer experiences.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (22)
cloud-manager10
routers10
testing10
router10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
routes10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
apidoc9
api9
cicd8
go-testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 70 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the AWS provider for Terraform, focusing on AWS route resource management. Their work included adding functionality like "exists" checks, implementing tests, addressing identifier issues, and implementing functionality for handling updates of routes. The commits also involved refactoring and improving existing code, including removing deprecated utilities and implementing functionality related to the launch permissions for AMIs.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
BSick7/aws-signing
Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
CLI that allows user to submit http requests using AWS request signing
Contributions:6 releases, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 2 months
http-requestsrequest-signingsigningsubmitrequest
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