Summary
Nicholas Guarino is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating secure, cost-efficient cloud platforms for healthcare and B2B SaaS. He blends hands-on software engineering (JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, C/C++) with deep SRE practice—incident command, observability, automation, FinOps, and large-scale AWS migrations—having driven an 80% cut in data pipeline costs and sustained month-over-month cloud spend reductions. Nicholas has led SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance implementations, automated audit evidence collection, and strengthened security posture while keeping delivery velocity high. A builder at heart, he founded and ran client projects earlier in his career and still enjoys teaching in tightly knit teams; an unexpected detail: he’s a longtime MUD enthusiast, reflecting a persistent interest in complex systems and community-driven design. Based in Reston, VA, he excels at translating product needs into reliable, auditable infrastructure and measurable operational savings.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer