Nick Pack
Principal DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Capgemini
Southend-on-Sea, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Pack is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering secure, cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD platforms for large enterprises and government. Currently contracting at Capgemini and running Hakosuka Technology, he blends leadership and deep technical craft across AWS, Kubernetes, logging platforms, and DevSecOps practices. His career includes architecting a continuous delivery framework for HMRC’s customs transformation and building scalable log farms and automation stacks under strict policy constraints. A polyglot engineer and former CEO, he moves between software design, security architecture and low-level firmware work—evidenced by contributions to openiBoot and front-end build tooling on npm-era projects. Based in Southend-on-Sea, he’s an open-source and car enthusiast who often pairs pragmatic engineering with a tinkerer’s attention to detail. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous requirements and constrained environments into auditable, production-ready systems.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Seevic CollegeChalvedon School
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
bootloader10
javascript10
assembly10
firmware10
c1110
gruntjs10
c1710
low-level-programming10
u-boot10
front-end-development10
backbonejs10
assembler10
boot10
arm10
g10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
iDroid-Project/openiBoot
Jun 2010 - Jul 2012
Collaborative development of openiBoot for the iDroid Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 16 comments, 9 issues in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily involve modifying and maintaining the openiBoot firmware. They removed ultrasn0w from the master branch, updated the ARM toolchain build script, and added a new function related to a nor_backup operation. The user also made minor adjustments to text and comments in existing code files, showing attention to detail and maintaining the project's code.
javacollaborative
BoilerplateMVC/Backbone-Require-Boilerplate
Mar 2013 - Apr 2020
A Rad Backbone.js and Require.js Boilerplate Project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on updating and configuring build processes for the Backbone.js and Require.js boilerplate project. They made changes to dependency management using Bower, updated paths in the build scripts, and switched to grunt tasks for builds. The user also addressed jQuery Mobile-related issues and updated various configuration files.
backbonebackbonejsrequirejs
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