Nick Carpenter
Senior Platform Architect
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Carpenter is a Senior Platform Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating SaaS platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks across startups and enterprise environments. He combines software development, release engineering, SDET-driven test automation, and DevOps practices—having implemented branch strategies, Selenium and web-service test frameworks, and configuration-as-code with Chef, Ansible, and CloudFormation. Nick has progressed from SDET and test engineer roles to principal and enterprise architect positions, bringing practical operational experience supporting live workloads in AWS to strategic platform design. Based in Rochester, NY, he is known for bridging developer productivity and production reliability, turning testing and release discipline into scalable delivery practices. A practical tinkerer by background, he often surfaces non-obvious improvements by applying test automation thinking to deployment and operations problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology - Applied Network and System Administration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Technology - Applied Network and System Administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (163)
test-kitchen10
nuget10
jenkins-api-plugin10
jenkins-plugin10
iis10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
serverless-application-model10
dotnet10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
aws-codebuild10
cookbook10
aws-lambda10
aws-sam10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
carpnick/cf_extention_core
Jan 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 134 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
carpnick/sam_templates
Jan 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 44 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 3 months
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