Nico Castro-schwarz
Site Reliability Engineer at TikTok
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Castro-schwarz is a Site Reliability Engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure for high-traffic products. He has led small DevOps teams and managed cross-functional migrations—most notably replacing a payment processor and securely migrating member credit card data at New York Public Radio. Currently at TikTok, he focuses on automation and reliability in production environments, drawing on prior SRE work at Zocdoc where he built disaster recovery across regions and developed tooling for certificate management. His background in electrical engineering and early test-engineering roles gives him a strong hardware-aware perspective on systems reliability and automation. Comfortable both managing engineers and shipping hands-on operational solutions, he blends orchestration tools like Ansible and Terraform with pragmatic monitoring and alerting practices. Colleagues rely on him for practical, security-conscious operational migrations that minimize customer impact.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Electrical Engineering, BSE, Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Spanish
Github Skills (20)
owner9
ember7
momentjs6
vue6
ember-addon6
nuxt5
fastboot5
ember-cli4
react4
radial3
networking2
appserver2
backend2
building-blocks1
countdown1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nypublicradio/nypr-fastboot
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
FastBoot Server for NYPR Apps
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 11 PRs in 2 years 5 months
fastboot
nypublicradio/nyprsetuptools
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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