Nik 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 Technology
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