Nick Saika
Senior Software Engineer at Lambda
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Saika is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience who transitioned from systems administration into backend and distributed systems engineering, specializing in Go for Linux and BSD environments. He focuses on architecting scalable, reliable platforms—particularly Kubernetes-related systems—while reducing operational toil through automation with tools like Ansible and Salt. Comfortable leading architectural decisions or shipping solo under tight deadlines, he brings deep familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra/ScyllaDB, Redis, and etcd. Based in Ontario, Canada, Nick has a decade of remote work experience, is actively learning Rust, and prefers full-time engineering roles rather than management or contract work. An engineer who values decomposition and repeatability, he pairs hands-on coding with a systems mindset shaped by his admin roots.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
General Machining, General Machining at Fanshawe College
Stackoverflow
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22answers
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Github Skills (195)
controller10
vim10
coreos10
client-library10
go-client10
editor10
containerd10
kakoune10
ccm10
container-storage-interface10
rust10
csi10
text-editor10
docker10
controller-manager10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nesv/govern
Mar 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:72 commits, 4 pushes, 1 issue in 10 months
nesv/Scarlet
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:96 commits in 1 month
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