Nick Clark
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Clark is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer based in Melbourne with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cross-cloud systems. At Elastic he leads SRE efforts for observability, automating SDLC and self-service cluster configuration while teaching AI-assisted engineering across the org. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Golang, Python, Terraform/Helm and cost-optimisation—previous work includes enabling petabyte-scale ingestion across four cloud providers and saving ~$1M/year in cloud costs. Nick also blends technical leadership with creative practice (interactive art and LED sculpture) and hardware prototyping, bringing an unconventional maker’s perspective to infrastructure problems. He’s comfortable from firmware to platform, with a track record of turning operational toil into automated, repeatable systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer networking, Associates Computer networking at Colorado Mountain CollegeUNSW Sydney
Spanish
Github Skills (177)
terraform10
go-git10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
logstash10
rest10
golang10
git10
search-engine10
observability10
java10
elastic10
kibana10
terraform-provider10
restful10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
wandergeek/terraform-provider-elasticstack
Jan 2023 - Mar 2026
Terraform provider for Elastic Stack
Contributions:3 PRs, 77 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 1 month
providerconfluent-cloudelasticterraformterraform-provider
ninjasphere/driver-go-hue
Jul 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 4 months
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