Nick Lynch
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Lynch is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, cost-efficient distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. He has driven multi-region architectures and large-scale rearchitectures—most recently at Cruise and Airbnb—consistently delivering major KPI and cost improvements. A senior AWS CDK contributor and former AWS engineer, he helped shape the CDK and jsii tooling, shipping cross-region Lambda support and runtime metadata enhancements used by many in the cloud community. Nick blends deep backend and infrastructure expertise with a data-driven design approach and a track record of mentoring teams and improving operational excellence. An engineer who moves between code and architecture, he’s as comfortable fixing build breaks across languages as he is defining org-level design reviews.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
aws-cdk10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
back-end-development9
code-generation9
cloud-services9
backend9
aws-cloudwatch8
python8
cross-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Example projects using the AWS CDK
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:33 reviews, 15 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on AWS CDK examples, contributing to various projects within the repository. Their work included upgrading existing examples to newer CDK versions and addressing build breaks across different languages like C#, Java, and Python. Additionally, they updated several examples related to RDS database instances and the use of S3 buckets. The user also made housekeeping changes, standardizing .gitignore files and improving the build scripts.
cloud-infrastructureexample-projectsawscdkaws-cdk
aws/aws-cdk
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:Backend & Cloud Engineer
Backend & Cloud EngineerContributions:1048 reviews, 357 commits, 322 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick implemented several new features for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), specifically around cross-region support for Lambda functions. They also introduced new functionality for legend positions in GraphWidgets and consistently sorted resource tags. Further contributions included adding support for specifying API key names and values, and supporting removal policies for BucketPolicy.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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