Nicholas Parker
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Parker is a pragmatic backend and DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating reliable cloud-native systems from Wellington, New Zealand. He contributes to prominent open-source observability work—helping evolve opstrace by enhancing configuration APIs, refining validation, and improving build/deployment and tracing support—demonstrating a focus on production-ready infrastructure and telemetry. Comfortable spanning API design, deployment pipelines, and exporter integrations, he favors practical, useful projects (personal work hosted at sr.ht/~nickbp). A BA in Computer Science and Astronomy from Boston University grounds a curious, systems-oriented mindset that shows up in thoughtful refactors and infrastructure upgrades. Colleagues would describe him as hands-on, quietly thorough, and committed to making “cool and useful stuff” that just works.
15 years of coding experience
AS, Missouri Academy, AS, Missouri Academy at Northwest Missouri State UniversityBA, Computer Science + Astronomy, BA, Computer Science + Astronomy at Boston University
French
Github Skills (16)
monitoring10
configuration-management10
kubernetes10
observability10
go10
prometheus10
tracer10
trace10
metric10
kubernetes-pods10
terraform9
apidoc9
logfile9
api9
terraformer9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
opstrace/opstrace
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
The Open Source Observability Distribution
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 49 commits, 131 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily worked on back-end configuration, API updates, and infrastructure improvements within the observability platform. They updated the configuration API to include new endpoints and refactored validation processes. Additionally, the user made significant changes to the build and deployment infrastructure by bumping versions of key components and modifying the ingress configuration to point to the correct services, and to support tracing. They also added support for new exporters.
observabilitymonitoringmetricslogstracing
nickbp/kapiti
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Kapiti recursive DNS server
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 136 pushes in 1 year 8 months
dns
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