Nicholas Skaggs
Senior Engineering Manager at Chainguard
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Skaggs is a Senior Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience building and leading distributed, remote-first engineering and SRE teams for infrastructure-heavy organizations. He’s led cross-functional groups at Wikimedia, DigitalOcean, Canonical and Chainguard, delivering large-scale cloud, CI/CD and platform services that power millions of edits and tens of thousands of servers. A people-first manager and coach, he consistently elevates engineers and creates durable teams that continue to perform after his departure. He also has hands-on QA and test-automation experience in prominent open-source projects like Juju, giving him practical depth in reliability and release engineering. Based in Greater Cleveland, he combines operational rigor with community-focused product thinking to reduce costs and accelerate delivery in complex, multi-datacenter environments.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Toledo
Github Skills (7)
golang10
go10
testing10
kubernetes-pods9
container9
kubernetes9
devops8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
juju/juju
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Orchestration engine that enables the deployment, integration and lifecycle management of applications at any scale, on any infrastructure (Kubernetes or otherwise).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:169 commits, 115 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's contributions primarily revolve around testing activities within the Juju orchestration engine repository. The commits indicate changes to test files, focusing on areas like performance, cloud configurations, and various functionality aspects of Juju. The user appears to be involved in maintaining and updating existing test suites to ensure the engine's reliability across diverse scenarios.
kubernetesjujugolangdevopscontainers
nskaggs/wmhack-map
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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