Nicholas Lavrov
Platform Manager
Oxnard, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Lavrov is a Platform Manager with 10 years of experience who transitioned from QA automation into DevOps and platform leadership, now shaping cloud-native deployments and infrastructure strategy at Appen. He has hands-on experience building and migrating provider-managed and custom Kubernetes clusters across AWS and GCP, codifying infrastructure with Terraform and reducing operational complexity by migrating databases and streaming systems to managed services. Notably, he identified and eliminated waste to cut an AWS bill by roughly $800k/year while enforcing compliance-driven regional deployments for GDPR. Comfortable in multiple languages and tooling—Python, Ruby, Java, Node, Docker, Helm, Vault, Postgres, Kafka—he blends developer empathy from his QA roots with cost-conscious, reproducible platform engineering. Based in Oxnard, CA, he pairs a Princeton engineering background with a pragmatic focus on repeatable infrastructure and measurable business impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Candidate, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Candidate, Chemical & Biological Engineering at Princeton University
English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian
Github Skills (122)
pluggable10
identity10
authentication10
metadata10
cfn-lint10
openid-connect10
aws-cloudformation10
connectors10
openid10
identity-provider10
idp10
aws10
oauth10
scheduler9
ansible9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NickLavrov/circleci-primes
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 7043 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
NickLavrov/nl-api-flask
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Simple Flask api
Contributions:20 PRs, 39 pushes, 21 branches in 2 months
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