Nicholas Dumas
Principal Platform Engineer
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Dumas is a Principal Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD platforms, currently driving platform reliability at Raft. He specializes in Python and Go, with deep operational experience remediating outages, implementing observability (Datadog APM and synthetic monitoring), and enforcing security and resource governance. Nicholas has a track record of modernizing pipelines and onboarding documentation to reduce incidents and accelerate developer productivity across large consumer-facing environments. Based in Virginia, he combines hands-on incident response with strategic improvements—improving tagging standards, security scanning, and Terraform/Helm-driven delivery—to prevent repeat failures. His Github ethos, "fight for the User," reflects a practical focus on measurable UX and uptime outcomes rather than abstract tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Colonial High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
markdown10
javascript10
nodejs10
gitbook10
css10
math10
react10
gephi9
lichess9
certification9
codebase9
functional-programming9
frontend9
chess9
documentation9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kohortz/kohortz
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
NDuma/ResearchAstute
Nov 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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