Summary
Nick 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