Nick Cleary
Senior Platform Engineer
Lakewood, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Cleary is a Senior Platform Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience blending DevOps, platform engineering, and application security to deliver resilient, automated infrastructure. He has built offline Kubernetes deployment pipelines, migrated legacy CI/CD to GitHub Actions, and automated security scanning and CSP generation—demonstrating a rare mix of developer and security expertise. Comfortable across Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Helm, AWS, and Kubernetes, he focuses on reproducible developer environments and scalable platform automation. Currently at Defense Unicorns after senior roles at TRISTAR and Sherwin-Williams, he’s known for turning manual, error-prone processes into automated, auditable systems. Relentlessly pragmatic, he describes his craft as “relearning how to not suck at software development,” signaling a continuous improvement mindset and humility in production-grade engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Information Technology, High School Diploma Information Technology at Lakewood High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Cleveland State University
Github Skills (60)
kubernetes10
devsecops10
vulnerability-management10
python10
django10
security-automation10
analytics10
security10
owasp10
automation10
download-manager10
programming-tools10
youtube9
oracle-database9
dockerfile9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Hijerboa/flask-postgres-base
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 17 pushes in 8 months
NickClearyTech/clearys-bot-toy
Oct 2022 - Nov 2025
The Source Code for the Cleary's Bot Toy discord Bot
Contributions:11 reviews, 64 PRs, 112 pushes in 3 years 1 month
discord-bot
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