Nicholas Whittier
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at ABBYY
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Whittier is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling across fast-growing startups and large engineering organizations. He’s led SRE and release teams at Dropbox and HelloSign, driving incident response improvements, deployment automation, immutable infrastructure, and substantial team growth while balancing compliance and velocity. A pragmatic servant leader, he focuses on trust as the linchpin of transformational change and has a strong opinionated approach to dependency management, source control workflows, and deploy confidence. Based in Denver, he pairs hands-on technical execution with people management—hiring, leveling, and performance calibration—to turn reliability strategy into measurable operational outcomes. An early implementer of centralized logging and scalable AWS infrastructure, he thrives on optimizing repeatable processes that reduce toil and increase developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Liberal Arts, BA, Liberal Arts at St John’s College
Github Skills (40)
hugo9
hugo-theme9
signature9
esignature9
logstash9
partitions9
backup9
api8
fastest8
blog-engine8
bash8
cms8
web-application7
static-site-generator7
content-management-system7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nilproductions/hugo-incorporated
Jun 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
hugojekyll-themejekyllhugo-theme
imperialwicket/Cloud-Prize
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 3 months
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