Nicholas Romero
Co-Founder at Unsupervised
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarNicholas Romero is a Lead Platform Engineer based in Houston with 11 years building and securing cloud-native, distributed systems for both enterprise and private-client deployments. He designs and automates Kubernetes-based platforms, has migrated and managed multi-terabyte Postgres clusters, and built observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager to keep high-availability services reliable. Nicholas brings full-stack fluency—from front-end IoT UI work on ESP32 projects to backend services and CI/CD automation—bridging developer experience with operational rigor. His background includes modernizing large e-commerce systems, implementing robust E2E testing, and pioneering VR tooling at Shell, reflecting a pattern of tackling varied technical domains and shipping pragmatic solutions. Notably, he pairs hands-on engineering with platform-level leadership, often turning complex deployment and data challenges into repeatable Helm/Operator-driven installations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
html10
css10
esp-idf10
esp3210
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
wifi10
sys9
embedded9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tonyp7/esp32-wifi-manager
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Captive Portal for ESP32 that can connect to a saved wireless network or start an access point where you can connect to existing wifis.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on front-end development within the context of an ESP32-based WiFi manager. Their contributions involved refactoring and removing unnecessary dependencies like jQuery, and improving the UI by modifying HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. They implemented features for connecting to existing WiFi networks and managing access point settings. This suggests a focus on building the user interface for the ESP32 device.
access-pointcaptive-portalesp32wirelesswifi
ncrmro/rust-postgres-api
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Rust OpenAPI Rest API using SQL (No ORM)
Contributions:215 commits, 16 PRs, 199 pushes in 1 month
openapiormrestrest-apirust
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