Chris Nicoll
Clutterstack Engineer at clutterstack.com, chrisnicoll.net
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Nicoll is a pragmatic engineer with four years of commercial software experience and a deep research background (PhD in semiconductor physics) who blends infrastructure, DevOps, and documentation work into production-ready systems. As the founder of Clutterstack and a former Fly.io engineer, he’s contributed to tooling like flyctl and improved technical docs for Superfly, showing a knack for making developer experiences smoother as well as shipping infrastructure features. He enjoys treating infrastructure as "entertainment"—running his own projects publicly—while remaining a skeptical and curious LLM enthusiast. Comfortable across low-level hardware-adjacent problems and cloud-native deployments, he turns complex technical detail into clear, usable outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Semiconductor Physics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, PhD, Semiconductor Physics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy at University of CambridgeMaster of Science (MSc), Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at University of Waterloo
English, French
Github Skills (12)
markdown10
command-line-tool10
fly10
go10
markdown-it10
io10
documentation10
technical-writing10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
api-design7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/docs
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:217 reviews, 248 commits, 321 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving and expanding the documentation for the `superfly/docs` repository. Their contributions involved updating guides, refining existing documentation, and adding new sections. The user made numerous changes to formatting, wording, and organization to improve clarity and comprehensibility. The user's work encompassed multiple sections, covering various aspects of the platform.
superfly/flyctl
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Command line tools for fly.io services
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 13 commits, 30 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `flyctl` command-line tool by addressing minor bugs, improving documentation, and enhancing the user experience. They fixed typos, updated links within the documentation, and added new features like an alias for a command. The user also made changes to the application configuration related to Docker, suggesting involvement with containerization and deployment processes within the Fly.io ecosystem.
golangcommand-line-toolsflyio-toolsfly-iocli
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