Nicholas Hollett
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
London, England, Canada
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Top SchoolNicholas Hollett is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable platform and cloud services, currently at Amazon Web Services in London. He progressed from junior sysadmin and development roles at SmoothWall to platform development at Moonfruit before joining AWS in 2015, demonstrating deep operational and engineering continuity. His background blends hands-on systems administration, platform engineering, and long-term service ownership—skills well-suited to scalable, production-critical environments. Based in London with Canadian ties, he brings a global perspective to distributed systems and team collaboration. A University of Southampton BSc graduate, he pairs solid academic grounding with a track record of steady technical growth and practical problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dr Challoners Grammar SchoolBSc, BSc at University of SouthamptonThe Amersham School
Github Skills (22)
unix10
proxy10
browser10
kernel10
mime-message10
cloud-native10
operating-system10
rust9
netlink7
compiler6
go5
crate4
rust-lang3
allocator2
garbage-collection2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
niax/rust-email
Oct 2014 - Apr 2020
Implementation of MIME Messages for Rust
Contributions:108 commits, 23 PRs, 116 pushes in 5 years 7 months
mime-messagerust
niax/serenity
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Serenity Operating System
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
kernelserenityoperating-systemlinuxoperating
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