Nick Vance
Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick 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.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (182)
python10
image-viewer10
transmission10
ruby10
plex10
divider10
image-optimization10
torrent10
transmission-daemon10
scenarios10
homekit10
kodi10
siri10
macos10
homebridge10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ToWatchList/TWL_Downloader
Aug 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
nickv2002/Imperial-Assault-Skirmish-Map-Project
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
Maps for Imperial Assault skirmish scenarios: check missions or print for playmats
Contributions:117 commits, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
missionsscenariosimperialskirmish-mapsprintable-maps
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