Derek Nicol
Advanced DevOps Engineer at Amira Learning
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Nicol is an experienced Advanced DevOps Engineer and backend developer based in Austin with 11 years in production engineering and a software career stretching back to early 2000s. He specializes in Python-powered APIs (FastAPI, Django) and cloud-native architectures on AWS (EC2, ECS/ECR, RDS, Lambda), combined with containerization (Docker, Swarm, Traefik) and systems work across MySQL, Redis and Mongo. Derek blends hands-on infrastructure provisioning and physical server installs with application-level API design, bringing both ops rigor and code-first thinking to delivery. His background includes leading engineering efforts for high-traffic e-commerce and edtech platforms, and he’s comfortable moving between languages (Python, Go, PHP) and environments (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS, Hyper-V). Colleagues rely on him to transform legacy LAMP systems into modern, automated deployments while keeping services reliable at scale.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Self TaughtBowie High School
Github Skills (88)
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monitoring9
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transmission9
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notification-service9
tui9
syntax-highlighting9
irc9
analytics9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
derekn/piavpn-scripts
Feb 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
derekn/s5cmd-action
Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 38 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
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