Nicholas St Germain
Chief Technology Officer at Cosmic Universe
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas St Germain is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Austin with a decade of experience standardizing and automating engineering operations across startups and enterprise teams. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—shipping tooling for Docker, Plex integrations, and monitoring pipelines—with strategic leadership roles at EvoVerses and Cosmic Universe. At thirdweb he architected an Unreal Engine plugin with a Rust core and helped evolve SDKs and developer workflows, showing a rare mix of game-engine, systems, and cloud-native expertise. His open-source contributions focus on automation for media-server ecosystems and container update tooling, reflecting a strong bias for operational reliability and observability. Known for turning manual processes into CI/CD-driven pipelines, he excels at making complex systems repeatable and auditable. Outside traditional credentials he cites a self-driven education in “Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” signaling entrepreneurial curiosity and a practical, continuous-learning mindset.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Trinity High SchoolWisdom, Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Happiness at LifeSystem, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager, System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager at Austin Community College
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Github Skills (24)
container10
docker10
python10
scripting10
dockers10
automation10
api10
docker-container10
http-request10
logging10
plex10
automations10
influxdb10
api-design9
apidoc9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pyouroboros/ouroboros
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Automatically update running docker containers with newest available image
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 1 review, 259 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on refactoring the project's code, including file organization and import management, with heavy emphasis on logging. They implemented and later reverted several features, such as a Discord notification flag and API error handling, suggesting experimentation with different functionalities. The commits reveal a strong involvement in configuring and managing the project's functionality within a Docker environment, indicating DevOps capabilities.
containersdocker-imagedockerpython-3updater
Boerderij/Varken
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Standalone application to aggregate data from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB using Grafana as a frontend
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 715 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the project by modifying and implementing code related to interacting with the Plex ecosystem and writing aggregated data to InfluxDB. This included fixing API request URLs and making adjustments to the `Tautulli` integration. Additional contributions included refactoring existing functionality within the project, such as separating InfluxDB measurements and improving disk status monitoring. The user also made general improvements by separating influxdb measurements for different service metrics.
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