Nick Stroud is a Senior Software Engineer based in Kirkland with nine years of experience blending full-stack development and DevOps with a foundation in structural engineering. He has driven cross-discipline transformation at Boeing—creating and leading a team to apply software practices to structural engineering—and now advances cloud-scale tooling and reliability at Google. Proficient across Python, Java, C#, Swift, Angular, Django, iOS/Android, Docker, and ASP.NET Core, he ships automation and modern data management that bridge engineering domains. His open-source DevOps contributions include improving GoogleCloudPlatform's Cluster Toolkit to make AI/ML and HPC deployments more robust and repeatable. Known as a self-motivated lead with clear communication and mentorship skills, he pairs rigorous engineering analysis (BS in Civil Engineering, composite structural certificate) with a Stanford graduate certificate in computer science. A pragmatic problem solver, he often surfaces non-obvious reliability gains by rethinking build, test, and deployment workflows end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Composite Structural Analysis and Design, A, Certificate, Composite Structural Analysis and Design, A at University of Washington
Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering, 3.94, Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering, 3.94 at Oregon State University
Graduate Certificate: Foundations in Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.06, Graduate Certificate: Foundations in Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.06 at Stanford University
Cluster Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy AI/ML and HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:19 releases, 1740 reviews, 484 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the cluster toolkit's build and deployment processes. Their commits included updates to the integration tests by ensuring unique resource names and modifying Terraform commands to use `-chdir`. They implemented error handling and added new functionality, such as the ability to overwrite blueprints. These changes streamlined the toolkit's deployment procedures, enhancing reliability.
Cloud HPC Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud which makes it easy for customers to deploy HPC environments on Google Cloud.
Contributions:2 PRs, 475 pushes, 350 branches in 2 years 7 months
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