Nicholas Avenell
Digital Development Technical Lead at Learning on Screen
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicholas Avenell is a seasoned Digital Development Technical Lead with 18 years of experience designing and operating web and cloud-native systems, now focused on DevOps leadership and platform engineering. Based in Oxford, he has led cross-functional teams at organizations from Pernod Ricard—standardizing security, CI/CD, and hosting for major consumer brands—to Elsevier and ICEYE on large-scale cloud migrations and Kubernetes automation. He combines hands-on infrastructure skills (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, AWS, Kubernetes) with pragmatic process and people management to accelerate delivery and reduce operational overhead. As a founder and director of small ventures (ISTIC Networks, Skute, Carcosa Dreams) he brings entrepreneurial instincts and product empathy to technical decisions. Beyond work, he channels creative energy into running live-action roleplaying events, a pursuit that informs his strengths in event logistics, player-focused UX and complex systems choreography. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical standards, secure platform builds, and translating ambiguous requirements into reliable production services.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Computing, Computing Computing at University of SunderlandLeigh Academy Mascalls
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Github Skills (106)
python10
automation10
ssh10
water10
editor10
youtube10
ansible10
cli10
electron10
youtube-dl10
typescript10
ffmpeg10
vscode10
python-requests10
aws10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aquarion/ansible-papertrail
Mar 2019 - Dec 2024
An ansible role for installing Papertrail
Contributions:2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
papertrailinstallingansibleansible-rolerole
aquarion/lifestream-web
Jun 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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