Nic Williams
Senior Engineer at StoreConnect
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolNic Williams is a senior engineer and veteran Ruby on Rails and JavaScript specialist with 18 years of experience building and operating production systems from Brisbane, Australia. He blends deep hands-on development—authoring Rails tooling and contributing to widely used projects like the Cloud Foundry CLI and BOSH—with infrastructure and DevOps expertise, including CI/CD automation and buildpack improvements. A PhD in Computer Science informs his systematic approach to architecture, testing and rapid application development, while his leadership roles (CEO, VP Engineering) show he can scale teams and products. Nic is an active open-source contributor and technical writer, improving documentation and developer tooling across projects such as ArduPilot and the github-gem. He’s been invited to speak internationally on open source processes, DevOps and web development, and quietly pairs design sensibility with production-grade automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge developer experience and reliable operations.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (hons) Computer Science, BSc (hons) Computer Science at University of TasmaniaPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (63)
bosh10
git10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
restructuredtext10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
scripting10
gcloud10
testing10
technical-writing10
cd10
command-line-interface10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Apr 2012 - Mar 2017
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:94 commits, 6 PRs, 85 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nic's commits primarily revolve around modifying scripts and configurations for the Cloud Foundry BOSH project. They are focused on ensuring the correct version of NATS is used, as well as making changes related to the chef_deployer component, specifically incorporating a default password option. Additionally, they address infrastructure-related issues, such as ensuring the existence of directories to capture system information, and creating a mount info mismatch reattach feature.
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cloudfoundry/cli
Sep 2013 - May 2019
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 55 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily contributed to the implementation of the `create-org` command and related API interactions. This involved defining the command structure, integrating with the organization repository to create new organizations, and updating the application's command structure. Their work also included writing tests for the new features. The user demonstrated proficiency in Go programming and interacting with Cloud Foundry's API.
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