Summary
Nicola Sheldrick is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native, microservices-based systems across Europe and the US. Currently a Sr. Engineer II at HashiCorp, she focuses on delivering and evolving Terraform Cloud and its Registry, blending infrastructure-as-code expertise with product-minded engineering. Her background spans backend systems in Ruby, Clojure and emerging Go/Scala tooling, plus hands-on infrastructure work with Terraform, Consul, Nomad and AWS. She has repeatedly driven legacy extraction and API-first designs at companies like Babbel and sonnen, pairing pragmatic architecture with measurable business outcomes. Comfortable in cross-functional and consulting roles, she often serves as the technical steward for platform decisions and developer workflows. A less obvious thread through her career is a consistent focus on infra tooling and automation—turning operational complexity into repeatable, testable services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
not completed, Computational Neuroscience, not completed, Computational Neuroscience at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
English, German, French