Neil Hickey
Senior Software Engineer at VMware
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNeil Hickey is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling, currently working on Carvel at VMware/Broadcom. Based in Denver, he brings deep platform engineering expertise from his continuous tenure through Pivotal into VMware, shipping tools that help teams manage Kubernetes application lifecycle. He combines systems-level thinking with practical developer ergonomics, contributing to open-source projects used by platform engineers and SREs. Trained in Integrated Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin, he pairs formal CS foundations with hands-on production experience. Colleagues rely on him for robust, maintainable solutions and pragmatic improvements to complex distributed systems. An understated strength is his long-term commitment to the same core domain, giving him rare institutional and technical continuity across evolving cloud-native stacks.
11 years of coding experience
Integrated Computer Science, Integrated Computer Science at Trinity College, DublinLeaving Certificate, Secondary Education (High School), Leaving Certificate, Secondary Education (High School) at Coláiste Éanna C.B.S Ballyroan
English, French, Irish
Github Skills (155)
appwrite10
controller10
package-management10
recovery10
historical10
carvel10
backup10
vms10
declarative10
namespaces10
migrate10
k8s10
operator10
markdown10
javascript10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neil-hickey/docs-tap
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:7 PRs, 74 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
neil-hickey/carvel-kapp-controller
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Continuous delivery and package management for Kubernetes.
Contributions:8 PRs, 114 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
controllerdevopscontinuouscontourk8s
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