Nick Del Nano is a tech lead and staff infrastructure engineer with a decade of experience building resilient cloud-native and data streaming platforms at Yelp from SRE roots to platform leadership. He currently architects and implements a cutting-edge stream processing stack using Flink, Apache Paimon and Iceberg, after leading ingestion of 1,500+ Kafka streams into a company-wide Lakehouse and delivering batch platforms with Spark, Trino and dbt. Known for treating any challenge as within scope, he pairs technical vision and execution—performance and cost optimizations, observability, and automated remediation—with hands-on mentorship and stakeholder partnership. Notably, his SRE work cut Yelp.com downtime from minutes to seconds via automated detection and remediation, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability under pressure. Based in Seattle, he is passionate about distributed systems, open table formats, and test-driven development, blending deep systems expertise with product-minded delivery.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years
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Nick Del Nano - Tech Lead And Staff Engineer, Data Streaming