Nick Dunklee
Software Engineer
Experience
Senior Software Engineer - Sovrn
2023 to 2024
SDET 5 – Sovrn
2021 to 2023
SDET 4 – Sovrn
2018 to 2021
- Create metrics dashboard across all company software, tracking multiple KPMs such as speed, performance, availability, quality metrics, leveraging APIs from: Github, VictorOps, SonarQube, Monocle, Dependabot, Synthetics
- Ephemeralize testing environment so entire tech stack can run locally in Docker containers to shut down costly remote datacenter
- Replaced expensive commercial performance-testing software with custom scalable EKS solution to save $10,000/yr
- Design migration plan from legacy Kafka to 2.3 and performance test compression mechanisms to maximize speed vs record size
- Architect transition plan for live upgrade of global Aerospike infrastructure to avoid downtime/revenue loss, automating via Ansible/Molecule
- Deploy SonarQube across org to automate code coverage reporting
- Onboard junior engineers and standardize onboarding practices on engineering teams to speed the onboarding-to-productivity transition
Software Development Engineer in Test – Spectra Logic
2016 to 2018
- Ruby-Cucumber, PowerShell, Bash frameworks for test automation
- S3 cloud simulation for test automation
- Big data deep storage testing
- Automated tape library testing
Senior Software Engineer – Qualcomm, Inc.
2011 to 2016
- Automate testing of prototype, virtual chips, 3G, LTE, smartphone, cell tower, APQ8064, and others
- Migrate source control to Git from ClearCase
- Automated log parsing and reporting
- Increase reliability of lab equipment to reduce losses
Software Engineer III – Cisco Systems, Inc.
2008 to 2011
- IPSec, AnyConnect, 3G MicroCell, Telepresence
- Virtual build automation infrastructure
- Release engineering
- Teaching
- Budgeting to reduce spend
Software Engineer II – Apple, Inc.
2007 to 2008
- iPhone, macOS, iCloud, Time Capsule, VPN, WiFi Projects
Education
Major: Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems
Minor: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Skills
- Automate anything
- Make any system talk to any other system
- Created a 1000-mile-long USB link over WAN (yes, anything!)
- Ability to talk with humans and teach them how everything works regardless of technical level
- Document like it’s my job
- AWS infrastructure
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Kubernetes for developers
- Datadog
- React
- Rust
- Python
- AI Programming Assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot)