Nicholas Hinds
Lead Engineer at Orion Health
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNicholas Hinds is a Lead Engineer based in Auckland with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade software at Orion Health, where he progressed from software engineer to lead since 2011. He blends strong backend and cloud engineering skills with front-end polish, evidenced by open-source contributions that range from improving Tumblr UX to extending a Prometheus CloudWatch exporter to support Lambda, EMR, tagging and better concurrency. His Mathematics and Computer Science background from the University of Otago underpins a pragmatic, data-driven approach to system design and troubleshooting. Nicholas excels at bridging developer experience and cloud-native observability, often tackling thorny edge cases like multi-statistics listing and cross-role AWS assumptions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful architectural improvements and steady delivery across both UI and infrastructure layers. He brings an unusual combination of UX-minded front-end tweaks and deep cloud instrumentation expertise to long-lived healthcare systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Otago
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
keyboard-shortcuts10
shortcuts10
user-interface10
prometheus-exporter10
go10
prometheus10
aws10
cloudwatch10
webextension9
html8
aws-lambda8
css7
rest-api6
api-rest6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-community/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
Prometheus exporter for AWS CloudWatch - Discovers services through AWS tags, gets CloudWatch metrics data and provides them as Prometheus metrics with AWS tags as labels
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 14 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the backend logic of the prometheus-community/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter project, focusing on enhancing its capabilities to collect and expose AWS CloudWatch metrics. They implemented features allowing the addition of discovered tags to metrics and fixed a bug related to listing multiple statistics per metric. Furthermore, the user added support for AWS Lambda and EMR services, expanding the scope of the exporter's compatibility. They also introduced features to improve concurrency and assumed roles within the jobs, indicating work related to cloud infrastructure and configuration.
exporterprometheus-exportercost-optimizationamazonamazon-web-services
new-xkit/XKit
Jul 2013 - Oct 2013
Fork of XKit, the extension framework for Tumblr
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily worked on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the "One-Click Postage" extension for Tumblr. They added keyboard shortcuts for common actions like reblogging, queuing, and drafting posts. They also addressed UI issues such as ensuring the post box remains visible when using keyboard navigation and fixing a bug related to keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. The contributions focused on improving user experience and providing more efficient interaction with the Tumblr platform.
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