Nicholas Law
Founding SRE at Hey Buddy
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorNicholas Law is a Founding SRE and platform-focused engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient, cloud-native systems across startups and scale-ups from Newcastle, Australia. He blends full-stack development (Go, PHP, Node, TypeScript) with deep AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code expertise to modernize platforms, automate CI/CD, and improve backend and IoT performance. At Konvoy Kegs and Brighte he led cloud migrations, Terraform/CDK automation, and data warehouse initiatives while moving rapidly between individual contributor and management roles. Known for pragmatic technical leadership, he’s comfortable owning end-to-end reliability, security, and cost optimisation in small fast-moving teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate business needs into production-grade platforms and to mentor engineers across DevOps, backend, and data domains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,650reputation
247kreached
6answers
32questions
Github Skills (200)
twitch10
echo10
websocket10
spider10
crawler10
webserver10
ansible-role10
javascript10
middleware10
bindata10
json-response10
micro-framework10
api10
golang10
hstore10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nicklaw5/helix
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
A Twitch Helix API client written in Go.
Contributions:98 releases, 163 reviews, 228 commits in 5 years
gotwitchtwitch-apitwitchtvtwitch-tv
nicklaw5/aws-cdk
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Contributions:48 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
development-kitcost-optimizationaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure
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