Nick Stogner
Staff Field Solutions Architect, AI Platforms
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNick Stogner is a Staff Field Solutions Architect specializing in building and operating hyperscale TPU/GPU training platforms, with a decade of experience across cloud-native and ML infrastructure. He founded Upgear to build large Kubernetes-based ML platforms and teach Golang and controller development, and now drives AI platform strategy and delivery for strategic accounts at Google. His background spans roles at VMware, Cisco, and startups where he led cloud-native transformations, contributed Kubernetes controllers, and introduced event-driven serverless and Go practices. An active open-source contributor, he added Google Cloud support and CAI object conversions to the widely used magic-modules Terraform project, bridging infrastructure-as-code and cloud asset modeling. Based in Wilmington, NC, he combines systems engineering roots in mechanical engineering with hands-on platform building and developer training, making him equally at home designing architectures and teaching teams to operate them.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
go10
terraform10
gcp10
web-components6
javascript6
ruby4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 18 PRs, 42 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the `magic-modules` repository by adding support for various Google Cloud Platform resources to the Terraform provider. Their commits focused on implementing CAI (Cloud Asset Inventory) object conversions, which involved translating Terraform resource definitions into CAI representation. Specifically, the user added conversion logic for compute instances, SQL database instances, and storage buckets. They also updated the CAI asset format and fixed asset naming issues.
google-cloud-platformterraformgcpgooglecloudplatformgooglecloud
nstogner/megamon
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:30 reviews, 15 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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