Nick Jones
VP Of Cloud Native Platform Engineering
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Jones is a cloud-native platform engineering leader with over a decade of focused experience and a two-decade career in systems and infrastructure across research, finance, and consumer sectors. Currently VP of Cloud Native Platform Engineering at Nscale, he has led delivery of large-scale GPU clouds for AI workloads and designed end-to-end AI/ML platforms that emphasize sustainability and operational excellence. A pragmatic open-source practitioner, Nick has contributed to notable projects like KUDO, LinuxKit, and Kolla-Ansible, bringing real-world improvements to Kubernetes operator tooling and OpenStack integrations. He combines deep hands-on skills—from virtualization and OpenStack to Kubernetes orchestration and DevOps automation—with a longstanding affection for vintage Sun and SGI systems and a preference for vi. Colleagues know him as an engineer who bridges community advocacy, consultancy, and product delivery, translating upstream contributions into production-grade platforms.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Video, Imaging and Communications Technology, BSc, Video, Imaging and Communications Technology at The University of Salford
Spanish
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
openstack10
kubernetes-pods10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
cloud-services10
cli10
operator10
container9
authentication9
devtools9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
kudobuilder/kudo
May 2019 - May 2020
Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator (KUDO)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 27 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the KUDO CLI and improving its integration with Kubernetes. Their contributions include implementing functionality to read the KUBECONFIG environment variable for various commands, allowing users to configure the Kubernetes client more flexibly. They also addressed bugs and improved the usability of the CLI by addressing title tags and other minor improvements. Furthermore, the user worked on modifying the plan status output.
zookeeperkubernetes-communitymysqldeclarativeoperator
openstack/kolla-ansible
Dec 2017 - Aug 2020
Ansible deployment of the Kolla containers. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributes to the configuration and management of the Kolla-Ansible project. Their work involves modifying Ansible roles and templates, specifically those related to HAProxy, Horizon, Designate, and MariaDB backup/restore. These changes include adding new options, fixing configuration errors, and enabling features. The user's commits reflect a focus on improving the deployment and operational aspects of the OpenStack environment.
containerskolladeploymentansibledocker
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