Nick Del Nano
Tech Lead And Staff Engineer, Data Streaming
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick 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
Github Skills (56)
spark10
mysql10
high-availability10
apache10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
data-ingestion10
mysql-replication10
aws10
apache-iceberg10
replication10
postgresql9
cdc9
kafka9
big-data9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nickdelnano/paimon
May 2025 - Jun 2026
Apache Paimon is a lake format that enables building a Realtime Lakehouse Architecture with Flink and Spark for both streaming and batch operations.
Contributions:2 reviews, 55 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
ndelnano/ndelnano.github.io
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 159 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
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