Nick Platt
Senior Platform Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Platt is a Senior Platform Engineer at Wise with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure. He specializes in CI/CD, AWS, Kubernetes, and configuration management, having progressed from platform engineer to a senior role within Wise’s Automation & Tooling team. Nick has hands-on experience delivering greenfield customer portals and integrating payments and realtime data earlier in his career, giving him a pragmatic product-facing perspective. He began his career working on personalised news delivery, automated testing strategies and occasional NLP experiments, which shaped his focus on reliable, testable systems. Based in the UK and trained in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, he combines platform-scale engineering with a developer-first mindset. Colleagues would note his mix of production reliability emphasis and willingness to roll up his sleeves on full-stack problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science with Industrial Placement, Computer Science with Industrial Placement at University of Exeter
Github Skills (68)
controller10
operator10
kind10
github-api9
api9
golang8
flask8
k8s8
storage8
kubernetes8
workspace7
javascript7
bare-metal7
aws-s37
kubernetes-deployment7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nkaplatt/my-site
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
My personal site - also use for learning new tech and tools
Contributions:2 releases, 24 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reactnextjs
transferwise/actions-runner-controller
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runnners
Contributions:6 reviews, 25 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 months
controllerhostedself-hosted-actionskuberneteskubernetes-controller
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