Nicolas Grange
CTO at Retriever Communications
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Grange is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Sydney with 11 years of progressive experience shaping product, cloud and operations at Retriever Communications. He blends hands-on engineering—especially in microservices, AWS, infrastructure-as-code and performance tooling—with people-first leadership, running regular 1:1s and mentoring a growing team from graduate hires to senior engineers. Nicolas has driven DevOps and reliability improvements using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Docker, InfluxDB and Grafana, and continuously evaluates new cloud services to balance cost, performance and resilience. He also fosters innovation through HackDays, Lunch & Learns and academic research partnerships, including mixed reality work with UTS and HoloLens. Notably, he remains a pragmatic coder who focuses on prototypes and infrastructure projects, ensuring architectural decisions are grounded in real-world operational insights.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software, Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software, Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
French
Github Skills (115)
saml10
identity10
authentication10
security10
monitoring10
golang10
json10
openid-connect10
kafka10
cross-platform10
android10
jasperreports10
authorization10
keycloak10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
retrievercommunications/docker-jasperserver
Aug 2015 - Oct 2021
Docker image for the community edition of JasperReports® Server.
Contributions:3 releases, 48 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 2 months
usabilitydocker-imagecommunity-editionjasperreports-serverdocker
retrievercommunications/styleguide
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Retriever Communication's style guides which are largely based off Google's ones
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 9 months
style-guidesretrievercommunication
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