Nicholas Ciechanowski
Senior Software Engineer at Nexigen Digital
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Ciechanowski is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with six years of experience building and maintaining web applications and infrastructure. He has progressed from technical support and server administration into web application development and now senior engineering roles at Nexigen Digital, blending hands-on ops skills with full-stack development. An active open-source contributor, Nicholas has made notable DevOps contributions to the popular laravel/homestead project—adding installers (Rust, DragonflyDB, ngrok), improving Apache proxying, and fixing tooling/versioning issues. He brings practical experience across automation, deployment tooling and server-side reliability, and is comfortable working at the intersection of infrastructure and application code. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic fixes and infrastructure features that reduce toil, even if he jokingly calls himself “awful” outside work. This combination of production-focused engineering and open-source maintenance makes him effective at improving developer experience and operational stability.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (13)
system-administration10
automation10
bash10
automations10
devops10
dockers9
apache9
mariadb9
go9
docker9
rust8
influxdb8
rvm7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/homestead
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 PRs, 20 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the Homestead project by adding and fixing features related to the underlying infrastructure and automation. Their work included adding support for new features like Rust and DragonflyDB installers, improving the Apache proxy setup, and fixing permissions and versioning issues for tools like RVM and InfluxDB. They also worked on the creation and setup of features, like the ngrok installer.
ALameLlama/Llamas-POE-Tools
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years
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