Nick Savage
Head Of Platform
Portsmouth, England, United States
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Top SchoolNick Savage is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 14 years of focused experience and a 21-year career trajectory building and operating platform teams across fintech and HR tech. Currently Head of Platform at GoHenry, he progressed from hands-on Lead Platform Engineer roles to strategic leadership, shaping resilient infrastructure and developer experience since 2022. His background includes leading platform initiatives at Benefex, Livelink Technology and earlier director-level and founder roles that blend operational rigor with entrepreneurial problem-solving. Based in Portsmouth, UK, he pairs an MSc in Software Engineering from The Open University with a pragmatic, long-term view of platform evolution and team capability building. An often-overlooked strength is his history of running small businesses and support teams, giving him a rare appreciation for customer-facing reliability and scalable support processes.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computing, Software Engineering, MSc Computing, Software Engineering at The Open University
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Github Skills (38)
markdown10
scripting10
lua10
knowledge-management10
google-cloud10
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
openssh9
hugo-template9
hugo-theme8
hugo8
command-execution7
docker7
serverspec7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vxnick/test
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:13 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
vxnick/website
Aug 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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