Nicholas Castellano
Vice President, Senior Cloud Architect at AllianceBernstein
Town of Carmel, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Castellano is a Vice President and Senior Cloud Architect with 30+ years of hands-on systems and infrastructure experience, currently leading multi-cloud modernization at AllianceBernstein across Azure, AWS, and GCP. He designs scalable, secure cloud architectures and authors reusable IaC modules—over 50 Terraform/Ansible modules—that bake governance and business logic into deployment frameworks. A lifelong tinkerer who wrote device drivers and ETL systems early in his career, he combines deep low-level fluency with modern DevOps practices to operationalize complex systems so teams can scale and sustain them. He’s a pragmatic mentor and code-review-driven leader who works closely with global teams in India and Vietnam to raise standards in documentation, testing, and architecture. Known as the person people turn to when projects stall, he excels at diagnosing cross-layer problems spanning network, infrastructure, and application domains. Based in Town of Carmel, NY, he blends a developer’s curiosity with enterprise-grade delivery and compliance awareness.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Pursued Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics and Computer Science, Pursued Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics and Computer Science at Wesleyan University
Github Skills (51)
linux10
aws-security9
dns-record9
static-analysis9
route539
terraform9
container-image9
gcp9
ingress9
graph9
devops9
aws9
checkov9
azure9
compliance9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
n2qz/batocera-emulationstation
Jul 2023 - Jun 2025
Contributions:175 pushes, 48 branches in 1 year 11 months
n2qz/batocera.linux
Jun 2023 - Jul 2025
batocera.linux
Contributions:486 pushes, 417 branches in 2 years 1 month
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