Nick Vance
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Owner.com
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNick Vance is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, primarily with Kubernetes, Python, and containerization. He has a track record of creating observability-first platforms and CI/CD pipelines from scratch—at companies from LinkedIn and Apple to fintech and autonomous-vehicle startups—often serving as the sole SRE or founding platform lead. Nick combines hands-on implementation (Terraform, Argo CD, Grafana/OpenTelemetry) with engineering leadership, having hired and grown platform teams, led security remediations, and launched platform services in months. He’s a high-performing remote worker who prioritizes tooling that saves engineering time and a healthy company culture that balances hard work with life outside the office. An early career background in scientific data processing and system administration underpins his pragmatic approach to reliability and cost-conscious observability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Physics at Occidental CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University
Github Skills (200)
python10
image-viewer10
ruby10
plex10
libfdk-aac10
divider10
linux10
youtube10
cli10
transmission-daemon10
scenarios10
youtube-dl10
homekit10
ffmpeg10
kodi10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nickv2002/Imperial-Assault-Skirmish-Map-Project
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:117 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
missionsscenariosimperial
ToWatchList/TWL_Downloader
Aug 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
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