Nick Santamaria
Senior Platform Engineer
Torquay, Victoria, Australia
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SeniorNick Santamaria is a Senior Platform Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, developer workflows, and secure applications using Kubernetes, the HashiCorp stack, and AWS. He combines hands-on platform engineering at the Victorian Department of Government Services with a background in DevOps, Drupal-led web platforms, and enterprise consultancy, giving him a rare blend of large-public-sector and agency experience. Nick is pragmatic about automation and infrastructure-as-code, having implemented PaaS solutions, Vault/Consul/Terraform patterns, and CI/CD practices across multiple organisations. He contributes to open-source tooling—most notably adding EFS service limit checks and tests to the awslimitchecker project—illustrating attention to operational detail and maintainability. Based in Torquay, Victoria, he seeks technically challenging roles where he can collaborate with top-tier engineers and continue improving platform security and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
boto10
aws10
python10
testing10
cpu6
galera6
mariadb6
hashtag6
javascript6
anchor6
mysql6
angularjs6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jantman/awslimitchecker
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
A script and python package to check your AWS service limits and usage via boto3.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the project by implementing AWS service limit checks, specifically for Elastic File System (EFS). They wrote Python code to interact with the AWS EFS API and retrieve usage information. In addition, the user created unit tests for the EFS limit checks to ensure code correctness and maintainability. Further contributions include documentation updates and minor code standard fixes.
limitspythonbotopython3boto3
nicksantamaria/drupal-encrypt_kms
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Development repo for drupal.org/project/encrypt_kms
Contributions:2 releases, 45 PRs, 96 pushes in 2 years 6 months
drupalencryptkms
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