Nick Satterly
DevOps Team Lead at Softpay
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Satterly is a seasoned DevOps leader with 15 years of hands-on experience and over a decade specialising in CI/CD, IaC, automation, monitoring and observability. Currently leading a DevOps team in Copenhagen, he has driven platform and deployment transformations at large e‑commerce and fintech organisations including Axfood and Klarna. His background spans monitoring at scale — contributing to open-source projects like Alerta and Ganglia where he fixed encoding, threading and metrics issues — showing a mix of backend engineering and operational rigour. Nick combines practical systems engineering with architecture-level thinking, having migrated services to container runtimes and modernised public APIs. Colleagues value him for pragmatic automation that reduces toil and for mentoring teams through DevOps transformations. An engineer by training with degrees in electronic systems and IT, he brings rare depth across monitoring, data and platform automation.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Systems, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electronic Systems at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (36)
monitoring10
authorisation10
python10
apidoc10
multithreading10
amazon-sqs10
alertdialog10
aws-sqs-fifo10
authentication10
alertview10
alerts10
c1110
c1710
api10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alerta/alerta-contrib
Apr 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributed integrations, plugins and custom webhooks
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 396 commits, 348 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the development of a service for the alerta-contrib repository. They implemented an alert-sqs integration that uses SQS for message processing. They also worked on refactoring daemon processes, specifically alerta-pinger, alerta-urlmon, and alerta-syslog. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and operational aspects of the alerting system.
pythonpagerdutyriemannsyslogwebhook
alerta/alerta
Mar 2012 - Sep 2022
Alerta monitoring system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 releases, 41 reviews, 3441 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions focused on enhancing the Alerta monitoring system's database and authentication modules. These changes included addressing encoding issues by implementing UTF-8 encoding throughout the code, specifically within the database module, tests, and views. Additionally, they made improvements related to API key creation and user management, including fixing issues with the generation of API keys and implementing support for the creation of user-defined API keys. The user also contributed to the addition of customer-specific configurations and the creation of API endpoints for retrieving and managing notes within the alert resources.
postgresalertaapi-serversystem-monitoringmonitoring
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