Nick Engelsman
Cloud Solutions Architect at BandLab
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNick Engelsman is a Cloud Solutions Architect with 14 years' experience designing and automating highly available, scalable systems, currently driving a serverless-first migration and CI/CD modernization at BandLab. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS (Lambda, CloudFormation), Node.js backends, and a broad data-store toolkit including DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, S3 and PostgreSQL to deliver resilient production platforms. A strong advocate of thorough testing practices—unit, integration, canary and e2e—he pairs infrastructure-as-code with pragmatic operational monitoring. As owner of Codedrops and an active contributor to the popular Serverless Framework (improving AWS integrations and deployment observability), he blends enterprise leadership with open-source impact. Based in The Hague, he brings Scrum Master experience and a knack for turning migration complexity into repeatable automation.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Design & Technology, Design & Technology at Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (9)
serverless10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
devops9
nodejs9
aws-lambda9
javascript8
cicd8
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/serverless
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 17 PRs, 227 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to improving the serverless framework's AWS integration. They fixed issues related to CloudWatch events, added support for symbolic links, and refactored the CLI and CloudFormation endpoint outputs. Additionally, the user refactored and improved monitoring and deployment processes by incorporating the verbose option for more detailed stack event information and by ensuring the correct dependencies for lambda functions during deployment.
aws-lambdaserverlessiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
nicka/lambda-ffmpeg-docker
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Image that (very closely) mimics the live AWS Lambda environment with FFmpeg support.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
mimicsaws-lambdavideoawsffmpeg
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