Nick Wolff
Platform Team Supervisor
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolNick Wolff is a Platform Team Supervisor and seasoned hardware qualification engineer with a decade of experience building and validating storage platforms at iXsystems, including TrueNAS M- and X-series. He blends deep systems and networking expertise—FreeBSD, storage middleware, BGP/routing, DNS, and Juniper—with hands-on Python and shell automation to drive reliable HA platform development and test frameworks. A practical open-source contributor, Nick has improved core TrueNAS middleware to harden enclosure management, upgrades, and internationalization issues. Previously a backbone routing engineer at OARnet, he led network management infrastructure and live BGP research (CAIDA hackathon finalist), bringing operator-grade rigor to product engineering. Colleagues rely on him for fast learning, pragmatic troubleshooting, and translating complex networking behavior into reproducible qualification processes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco Networking, Cisco Networking at Auburn Career CenterComputer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (9)
storage10
middleware10
zfs10
python10
nas10
apidoc9
api9
linux8
git7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
truenas/middleware
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
TrueNAS CORE/Enterprise/SCALE Middleware Git Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 23 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on resolving bugs and implementing enhancements within the TrueNAS middleware, as indicated by the "fix" and "NAS" prefixes in the commit messages. Their work involved modifying core middleware functionality to address issues with API bindings, enclosure management, and the installation/upgrade process. The contributions demonstrate a focus on storage management and systems administration, likely aimed at improving system reliability, performance, and compliance with enclosure management standards. Several commits also addressed character encoding issues.
middlewarestoragescalefreenaszfs
rem-os/RemOS
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
RemOS src tree
Contributions:112 PRs, 60 pushes, 482 branches in 1 year 6 months
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