Nick Dunklee

Senior Software Engineer - Sovrn

2018 to Present

• Create company-wide KPM dashboards, (Rust, Datadog) tracking daily cost, speed, security, performance, availability, quality; leveraging APIs from AWS, GitHub, VictorOps, SonarQube, Monocle, Dependabot, Synthetics, Tanium
• Utilize AI technology (ChatGPT, Copilot) to accelerate prototyping and development
• Implemented ephemeral testing environment using Docker, enabling local simulation of the entire shared tech stack expediting the decommissioning of an expensive remote datacenter and parallelizing the dev-test cycle for devs
• Replaced expensive commercial performance-testing software with custom scalable EKS solution to measurably reduce spend
• 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
• Streamlined engineer onboarding to expedite productivity and standardize practices across teams

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 downtime 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
• Design VPN test infrastructure from ground up
• WiFi Projects
• Troubleshoot Wi-Fi issues for Steve Jobs at his home

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

University of Michigan