Nic Roland
Technical Lead at Best Buy Canada
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolNic Roland is a Technical Lead with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently shaping monitoring and observability strategy at Best Buy Canada. He blends hands-on engineering in Python, Go and Linux with platform leadership—integrating Dynatrace, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Grafana/Prometheus and other tooling into the SDLC to reduce MTTR and combat alert fatigue. Nic’s background spans Kubernetes/OpenShift consulting, AWS migrations, CI/CD and automation, with a track record of turning monitoring data into actionable workflows and training product teams to own them. He is driven by curiosity and uses code to learn and automate his workflow, often prototyping side projects and contributing to developer advocacy and community events. Based in Calgary, he balances rigorous production experience with a knack for practical tooling and a playful “geek w/ god complex” sensibility that surfaces in both mentorship and hackathon collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Dublin Institute of Technology
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
dashboard10
monitoring10
charts10
api10
helm10
data-visualization10
kubernetes10
mysql10
prometheus10
logging10
hashicorp-vault9
secrets9
hashicorp9
vault9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nicr9/greptools
Mar 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:178 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
greppython
nicr9/daftpunk
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:143 commits, 6 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 4 months
daftprocess-datapythonscrape
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