Nicholas Young
Staff DevOps Engineer at Runware
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Young is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 16 years of experience building secure, resilient infrastructure for blockchain, Web3, and AI platforms from Colorado. He blends deep systems and security expertise—co-leading a Linux OS for AMD SEV-SNP confidential compute and optimizing hardware-accelerated cryptography—with pragmatic DevOps leadership across startups and distributed teams. Nicholas has run security and DevOps orgs, led audits, and shipped organization-level CI/CD and metrics for parachain and IoT networks, demonstrating both hands-on engineering and cross-functional program ownership. He’s a builder and hacker who also pilots aircraft, bringing methodical risk management and a maker’s mindset to complex infrastructure problems. Currently at Runware, he helps scale inference platforms for AI while retaining a white-hat focus on keeping data secure and highly available. His background founding conferences and consultancies signals an independent streak and a long-term commitment to open-source tooling and community.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Production, Audio Production at The Art Institute of Tennessee-NashvilleGeneral Studies, General Studies at Calhoun Community College
English
Github Skills (200)
audio-formats10
npm-package10
hyper10
effects10
code-generation10
m4a10
hex10
simplify10
middleware10
hydra10
goa10
api10
event-loop10
id310
vorbis10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
uptimeventures/nicholaswyoung
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:82 commits, 236 PRs, 597 pushes in 3 months
reactnextjs
secretfader/meridian
Feb 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:61 PRs, 139 pushes, 237 branches in 1 year 9 months
javascriptnetworkinghigh-levelstoragejavascript-applications
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