Summary
Nicholas Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with over a decade of experience building reliable, cloud-native systems and developer tooling. He combines deep SRE and QA roots—authoring large-scale integration and regression test frameworks—with hands-on platform work at Bloomberg and Honest Buildings, driving multi-tenant orchestration, Dockerized testing, and automated deployment pipelines. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect who led SOC 2 readiness and practiced chaos engineering, he focuses on making systems self-healing, auditable, and cost-efficient through automation and infrastructure-as-code. Nicholas has a track record of owning quarterly epics end-to-end, deprecating bespoke tools by contributing common features to cross-team repos, and reducing production incidents via realistic local test environments. He brings practical security testing experience from early-career roles and a knack for reducing operational toil by codifying processes into repeatable CI/CD practices.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Liberal Studies at Iowa State University