Nicholas Anderson
Site Reliability Engineer IV at VERISIGN
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Anderson is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and automating large-scale infrastructure across Verisign, Meta, and AWS. He specializes in configuration and orchestration tooling—Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Puppet—and pairs that with pragmatic scripting in Bash and Python to drive repeatable, reliable operations. Comfortable from firmware and hardware up through Linux/Unix, containers, orchestration, and networking, he thrives on reducing toil and improving system observability. His career blends enterprise DNS and internet-scale service experience at Verisign with cloud-scale systems development at AWS and SiteOps at Meta. Based in Sterling, VA, he brings a steady operational mindset shaped by frontline NOC and data center roles early in his career. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that turns complex, cross-domain operational challenges into auditable, low-touch workflows.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Technology & Advanced Networking, Computer Systems Technology & Advanced Networking at Monroe Technology CenterHigh School, High School at Potomac Falls High School
English
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Github Skills (173)
python10
authentication10
infrastructure10
remote-execution10
login-system10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
configuration-management10
iot10
counter10
salt10
docker10
zeromq10
saltstack10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nanderson94/nanderson.me
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 1 branch in 11 months
srct/masonstrap
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Bootstrap theme and demonstration using GMU's official colors!
Contributions:2 PRs, 41 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
bootstrap4sassbootstrap5cssgmu
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