Nick Silverman
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Shopify
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Silverman is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating scalable, cloud-native platforms, currently building infrastructure at Shopify from Cambridge, MA. He specializes in AWS-first architectures, networking, and infrastructure-as-code, and has led cost-saving, large-scale migrations and multi-region networking solutions that improved resiliency and cut significant annual spend. Nick has a track record of creating modern DevOps standards, container orchestration patterns, and repeatable Terraform modules that accelerate developer velocity across organizations. As an engineering manager and principal engineer he’s built autonomous teams, authored training curricula, and driven cross-functional modernization projects including decommissioning legacy identity domains and re-platforming CDN and scheduling systems. He contributes to the community through AWS open-source work and technical writing, and brings a practical blend of hands-on implementation and strategic cost governance. Early roles in support and IT give him a practitioner’s empathy for operational reliability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Music Production, Music Production at Berklee College of MusicComputer Networking Information Technology, Computer Networking Information Technology at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Github Skills (85)
terraform10
pygithub10
github-api10
archlinux10
github-api-v310
graph10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
aws10
scrypt9
certificate-signing-request9
golang9
command-line-interface9
python9
gcp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nckslvrmn/url_shortener
Jan 2019 - Jul 2026
creates and stores short urls
Contributions:4 PRs, 29 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 7 months
urlspythonshort-urlsshorttinyurl
nckslvrmn/arch_linux_wsl2
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Installation instructions for Arch Linux in WSL2
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
archlinuxarch-linuxarchlinux-installerwslwsl-installation
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