Nick Brewer
Software Engineer at Fastly
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Brewer is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and supporting cloud and server-side systems, currently engineering at Fastly after progressing from senior customer support roles into core development. His background blends technical support, triage for MongoDB server issues, and developer-focused content creation at Chef and Linode, giving him a strong operator’s sense for production reliability and user-facing documentation. He excels at translating customer incidents into durable engineering fixes and improving developer experience across platforms. Based in Philadelphia, he brings practical expertise in incident response, backup systems, and triage workflows that help reduce mean time to resolution. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical communication and for bridging gaps between support, docs, and engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Rowan College at Gloucester County
Github Skills (34)
markdown10
hugo10
inspec10
devrel10
chef-workstation10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
chef-infra10
devops10
linode10
documentation10
testing9
package-management9
test-kitchen9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brewn/chef-web-docs
May 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 22 branches in 6 months
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