Nick Bales
Technical Product Manager at Rackspace Technology
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Bales is a Technical Product Manager in the Austin area with 13 years of hands-on experience evolving through systems, DevOps, and automation roles at Rackspace Technology. He combines deep Linux and infrastructure expertise with product thinking, having moved from system administration into DevOps engineering and now leading technical product initiatives. Known for bridging operator realities and product roadmaps, he focuses on shipping reliable, automated solutions that reduce toil and scale operations. A Texas A&M computer science graduate, he brings institutional knowledge of cloud hosting environments and a pragmatic, operator-first approach to product decisions. Notably, his career progression within a single large cloud provider underscores both technical depth and the ability to drive change across teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (10)
php7
repmgr5
failover4
rackspace4
replication4
catalog3
postgresql3
ruby2
cdc2
meta1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nickbales/puppet-control
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 11 days
nickbales/puppet-profile
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 11 days
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