Nick Hentschel
Associate Director
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Hentschel is an associate director and pragmatic technology leader with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure and products from Boston. He currently leads Wayfair’s Kubernetes Platform team, delivering containerized workload management that balances developer velocity with operational efficiency. His background spans application development, automation, and deployment optimization—historic wins include cutting Rails deployment times to under 10 seconds and eliminating downtime for critical tools. A former tutor and hands-on engineer, he blends mentoring and operational rigor, often tackling both platform architecture and the scripting-level details that make systems robust.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
North Reading High SchoolBS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at Bentley University
English
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Github Skills (19)
heuristics9
infrastructure-management9
python9
zeromq9
scale9
iot9
remote-execution9
infrastructure9
docker8
salt8
saltstack8
decision-making8
configuration-management8
package-repository8
infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nickhentschel/dotfiles
May 2013 - May 2020
Contributions:152 commits, 267 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years
nickhentschel/simplicity-prompt
Aug 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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