Nick Young
Senior Software Engineer at Isovalent
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Young is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience spanning application development, systems administration, storage, virtualization, and networking. He builds and runs Kubernetes platforms and contributes to high-profile open-source projects like cilium and the Kubernetes Gateway API, where he’s shaped API definitions and ingress models used by cloud-native networking stacks. Former roles at Atlassian and VMware reflect a track record of moving between deep engineering and staff-level architecture, plus people and project management. Nick’s strengths are adaptability and pragmatic integration of systems from bare metal to distributed services, with notable expertise in storage and SSL/ingress translation logic. His academic background in psychology and history & philosophy of science hints at a systems-thinking approach to engineering and collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
apidoc10
ingress10
ca-api-gateway10
networking10
aws-apigateway10
amazon-api-gateway10
go10
api10
gateway10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
ebpf9
api-design9
system-design9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 836 reviews, 32 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of the gateway-api, focusing on refining the API definitions. Their work involved adding and updating condition reasons across various resources like GatewayClass, Gateway, Listener, and Routes in both v1alpha2 and v1beta1 versions. Additionally, the user addressed API review feedback by updating the types and adjusted the wording to improve clarity and accuracy. They also made changes related to generated code and updated the webhook update script, likely to maintain the project's build and release pipelines.
k8s-sig-networkload-balancingingresskubernetesprometheus
cilium/cilium
May 2018 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:625 reviews, 194 PRs, 109 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the development of the Ingress model and related ingestion logic, introducing data models for Ingress and Gateway API resources. They added ingestion logic from Ingress resources to the internal representation model. The user also updated existing code to include SSL passthrough implementation support and made modifications to the model translation logic, including fixing issues with CEC names and sorting of route matches. This involves modifications to both code and documentation across multiple packages within the cilium/cilium repository.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
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