Nicholas Tate
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Stack AV
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Tate is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in Kubernetes, container registries, and multicloud infrastructure. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—contributing to well-known open-source projects like DigitalOcean’s godo and doctl—with engineering leadership roles at Containership, DigitalOcean, and Stack AV. Passionate about federation and cloud-agnostic architectures, he pushes for solutions that reduce vendor lock-in and enable true multicloud portability. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs pragmatic system design with a history of shipping CLI and API features that improved registry and Kubernetes workflows. Uncommonly for someone in leadership, he continues to make targeted open-source contributions that directly impact developer tooling and release processes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
apidoc10
command-line-interface10
digitalocean10
dockers10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
golang10
container-registry10
registers10
testing9
cicd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/doctl
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
The official command line interface for the DigitalOcean API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 26 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas contributed to the `doctl` CLI by implementing features related to container registries and Kubernetes, enhancing functionality for managing DigitalOcean resources. They updated the CLI to support container registry EA (Early Access) features, including commands for repository management. Furthermore, the user added support for Kubernetes cluster configurations, particularly integrating VPC UUID specifications. The user also updated dependencies, reflecting a focus on maintaining and improving the CLI's capabilities.
command-line-toolapicommand-line-interfaceinfrastructurecloud
digitalocean/godo
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
DigitalOcean Go API client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the DigitalOcean Go API client, adding support for new features related to registry operations. Their commits focused on implementing functionality to delete tags, delete manifests, and list repositories and repository tags. They also introduced a new field to track tag counts. Additionally, the user prepared the release of version 1.35.0 and added image source functionality for the apps feature.
golangapiapi-clientgo-apiapi-client-go
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