Nicolas Richard
Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Richard is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in compute orchestration and platform engineering with 11 years of experience building resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure in high-throughput environments. Based in San Francisco, he has led production-critical projects such as Chime’s MySQL Aurora v5→v8 migration with five minutes of downtime and operationalized multiple EKS clusters, ArgoCD, and AWS LBC at scale. He drives measurable cost and reliability improvements through pragmatic choices—Datadog trace sampling, EC2 Spot adoption, and HPA—while routinely resolving high-priority incidents as an on-call SME. Previously he designed event-driven e-commerce integrations and infra-as-code patterns at Modsy that automated 50% of merchandising orders and made financial data auditable. His background spans data engineering for billions of daily events to platform work on Django and Rails backends, giving him a rare combination of low-latency data pipeline know-how and cloud-native production ops. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical trade-offs and repeatable infrastructure patterns that reduce blast radius and lower onboarding friction.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) | Dual-Degree Student Information Management, Master of Science (MSc) | Dual-Degree Student Information Management at Asian Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Maths and Physics, Bachelor's degree Maths and Physics at Lycée Saint LouisEngineer's degree Information Management Computer Science and Telecomunications, Engineer's degree Information Management Computer Science and Telecomunications at Télécom SudParis
English, French, Spanish, Thai
Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chime/mani-diffy
Dec 2023 - Mar 2026
Go tool that renders Kubernetes manifests from ArgoCD Application templates and commits them to PRs for safer template reviews
Contributions:7 reviews, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 3 months
argocdgokubernetes
Nicolas-Richard/Programming-Interviews-Problems
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:44 commits, 11 pushes in 5 months
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