Nik Gregory
Principal Engineer at Acquia Inc.
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Gregory is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years driving reliability and release engineering at scale, currently shaping release procedures for thousands of Acquia sites. He began as Acquia’s initial QA hire and built the company’s automation and BDD practices, marrying pragmatic test automation with developer-friendly tooling. Earlier roles at BladeLogic, BMC, Oryxa and Inktomi show deep expertise in automation frameworks, scalability labs, and performance testing for complex enterprise systems. Trained as a physicist with a Ph.D. from MIT, he brings a researcher's rigor to engineering problems and a penchant for “breaking things to make them work better.” Known for evangelizing process improvement, he combines hands-on scripting and architecture work with organizational coaching to make releases more stable and repeatable. Based in Andover, MA, he excels at turning brittle operational workflows into automated, auditable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Nuclear Physics, Ph. D., Nuclear Physics at M.I.T. Ph.D.Ph. D., Nuclear Physics, Ph. D., Nuclear Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Grinnell College
German
Github Skills (15)
ruby-wrapper10
acquia9
drupal9
automation8
testing8
rest7
rest-api7
coveralls3
coverage3
github-projects2
ruby2
continuous-integration2
slicer1
screencast1
golang1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jonny5v/riptide
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
acquia/sf-sdk-ruby
Dec 2016 - Jun 2021
Ruby Wrapper around the site factory rest api
Contributions:2 reviews, 37 PRs, 105 pushes in 4 years 6 months
restrest-apiruby-wrapper
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