Laurent Nicolas
Senior Staff Engineer at Nutanix
Watsonville, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaurent Nicolas is a Senior Staff Engineer with over two decades of experience designing complex software architectures and leading cross-functional teams at Nutanix, NetApp and Cisco, grounded in an engineer's education from École Polytechnique. He combines deep systems expertise—from low-level assembly, AIX/Solaris and real-time programming to modern DevOps, LLVM/Clang toolchain deployment, Kubernetes CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code with Ansible and Terraform. Known for pragmatic automation, he has written custom Ansible modules and Terraform providers for NetApp products and replaced GCC toolchains with LLVM/Clang to improve build quality and static analysis. A hands-on leader who mentors quietly, Laurent emphasizes code reviews, unit testing and measurable quality improvements while giving visibility to junior engineers. He thrives on solving thorny integration and performance problems across networking, storage and embedded domains and continually experiments with new tools to boost developer productivity. Based in Watsonville, CA, he pairs a rare combination of mathematical rigor and long-running enterprise product experience to deliver reliable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
mathematics and physics, mathematics and physics at Lycee MassenaBaccalaureat C, Mathematics, Physics, Baccalaureat C, Mathematics, Physics at Lycee Saint Exupery, Saint RaphaelEngineer, Mathematics, Physics, Engineer, Mathematics, Physics at Ecole polytechnique
English, French
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Github Skills (55)
network-configuration10
python10
fortigate10
ontap10
snapshots10
cvs10
anf10
automation10
tflint10
netscaler10
ansible10
netapp10
infrastructure-as-code10
cisco10
devops10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NetApp/terraform-provider-netapp-elementsw
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Support for Volume, Initiator, Account, and Volume Access Group resources.
Contributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 10 months
netapp-publicaccountvolumeinfrastructure-managementterraform
ansible-collections/netapp
Oct 2019 - Feb 2022
Development area for Netapp collections
Contributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 52 commits in 2 years 5 months
ansible-collectionansibleazurecvsontap
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