Nicholas Flintham
Senior Platform Engineer
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Flintham is a Senior Platform Engineer with over 14 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical IBM Power and Linux estates that support large-scale Electronic Patient Record systems. He has delivered multi-million pound hardware refreshes on time and under budget, and manages complex environments of AIX LPARs, Red Hat Linux instances, SAN fabrics, and enterprise backup solutions. Comfortable working to tight maintenance windows and ITIL processes, he blends deep platform engineering—NIM, Red Hat Satellite, Ansible, Spectrum Protect—with practical on-call experience and cross-team vendor coordination. Nicholas also contributes to open-source Android projects, improving build automation and settings UI, demonstrating a knack for both systems-level reliability and application-layer problem solving. Based in Sunderland, he pairs pragmatic operational discipline with a keen interest in security tooling, recently helping deploy IBM QRadar in production.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Boldon ComprehensiveBSc Computing, BSc Computing at Northumbria University
English
Github Skills (13)
sh10
script10
shell10
android-build10
python10
android-development10
scripting10
java9
ui-design9
ux-design9
javas9
git8
xml8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SlimRoms/android_build
Nov 2013 - Nov 2019
android_build
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:39 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on improving the build process and automating the installation of system components. They implemented commands like "installboot" and "installrecovery" to facilitate the installation of boot and recovery images onto a running device. Additionally, the user modified the `roomservice.py` script, suggesting involvement in managing and integrating device-specific dependencies within the build environment. Finally, the user merged in an android 7.1.0 release which suggests involvement in the building of the android ROM.
kotlinandroid
SlimRoms/packages_apps_Settings
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
settings app
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the settings application for Android, with a focus on UI and feature enhancements. Their work involved modifying UI elements and layouts within the settings app. Additionally, they updated the Wifi settings, including auto-connect features, and made adjustments to the display settings and data usage interfaces.
settings
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