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    "name": "Nicholas Carton",
    "label": "Solutions Architect",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "summary": "I am a Solutions Architect based in Sydney, Australia. My journey through Frontend, Backend, DevOps, and Data Engineering over the course of 15 years has enabled me to quickly understand any organization's complete technical landscape, identify optimization opportunities, and bridge gaps between IT, Security, DevOps, Backend, Frontend, and Product teams. With experience leading teams at InfoTrack and working with startups all the way up to large enterprises, I excel at upskilling developers and leveraging my end-to-end expertise in technologies like Rust, React and Kubernetes drive meaningful improvements across entire technical ecosystems.\n\nIn my spare time I enjoy working on my startup, Bitping, building Peer to Peer systems, Zero-Knowledge Proofs as well as tools for developers.",
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      "name": "Bullet",
      "position": "Senior Infrastructure & Software Engineer (Contracting)",
      "startDate": "2025-03-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Performed analysis across entire AWS infrastructure, identified key weaknesses and reimplemented environments from first principles to focus on security, auditability while also reducing developer friction",
        "Architected new environments in Kubernetes & Terraform following a pull-based-deployment policy to reduce security escalation risks",
        "Implemented ETL pipeline for blockchain data using Rust, Kafka, Clickhouse and Clickpipes",
        "Wrote a Trading API to help market makers onboard to the platform with tools they are already familiar with",
        "Introduced a holistic approach to metrics & logging across applications and infrastructure",
        "Rewrote CICD pipelines to decrease deployment times while increasing security"
      ],
      "url": "https://bullet.xyz",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "CreditProtect",
      "position": "Senior Infrastructure & Software Engineer (Contracting)",
      "startDate": "2024-07-01",
      "endDate": "2025-03-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Helped maintain and re-architect infrastructure stack on AWS and created CICD pipelines using GitHub Actions",
        "Implemented a novel ETL Pipeline from scratch with Clickhouse, DuckDB and Rust. Taking government data and turning it into structured, queryable and analyzable data",
        "Wrote the frontend for the application in Astro, Svelte and Tailwind",
        "Worked on backend APIs and authority data parsers in C#"
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      "url": "https://www.creditprotect.com.au/",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "MintBlue",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer (Contracting)",
      "startDate": "2024-03-01",
      "endDate": "2024-06-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a zero knowledge cryptography key management platform as a module to fit within the MintBlue Developer Platform"
      ],
      "url": "https://mintblue.com/",
      "location": "Remote - Antwerp, Belgium",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "Fl0 Pty Ltd",
      "position": "Infrastructure Engineer (Contracting)",
      "startDate": "2024-05-01",
      "endDate": "2024-07-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Migrated metrics and logging platform from Grafana Cloud to BetterStack",
        "Managed a full migration from hands on, self rolled Kubernetes cluster to next generation auto-managed Kubernetes cluster",
        "Reworked the deployment management for internal applications"
      ],
      "url": "https://fl0.com/",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "AutoSettle",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer (Contracting)",
      "startDate": "2024-01-01",
      "endDate": "2024-04-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Built first generation Vehicle Settlement UI using Astro & Svelte"
      ],
      "url": "https://autosettle.com.au/",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "21e8 Ltd",
      "position": "Chief Information Office",
      "startDate": "2023-04-01",
      "endDate": "2023-11-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintained internal network & security tooling on top of novel 21e8 index",
        "Facilitated data retrieval, aggregation and storage to build the distributed 21e8 index",
        "Introduced security policy for senstive data material, audit trail and internal IT infrastructure"
      ],
      "url": "https://21e8.nz/",
      "location": "Remote - Auckland, New Zealand",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "Bitping",
      "position": "Technical Co-Founder",
      "startDate": "2019-07-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a crowdsourced uptime testing tool, responsible for monitoring over 4000 websites from 120 countries, performing over 850 million jobs. ",
        "Designed critical infrastructure in a mix of on premise and datacenter Kubernetes clusters, built to be cloud agnostic, low cost and failure redundant.",
        "Built a rock-solid peer to peer network on top of Libp2p in Rust to work in conjunction with our Kubernetes clusters."
      ],
      "url": "https://bitping.com",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "Ansarada",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2021-01-31",
      "endDate": "2021-05-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintained Azure Kubernetes cluster and Azure DevOps pipelines for the legacy thedocyard platform.",
        "Migrated thedocyard Next Generation Deals platform to new Ansarada Workflow platform, built in React and ASP .NET Core"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ansarada",
      "location": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "thedocyard",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2020-01-31",
      "endDate": "2020-12-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Built next generation deals engine in Svelte, C# .NET Core while maintaining and winding down Legacy ASP.NET and jQuery codebase.",
        "Built new CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for existing project and GitHub Actions for new projects.",
        "Architected and built new infrastructure platform in Terraform and Kubernetes."
      ],
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ansarada",
      "summary": ""
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    {
      "name": "InfoTrack AU",
      "position": "Technical Team Leader",
      "summary": "Innovation Team",
      "startDate": "2018-07-31",
      "endDate": "2020-01-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Lead InfoTrack's Innovation Team as Technical Team Leader.",
        "Inherited the existing consumer platform stack which was built in an array of CloudFormation scripts, custom templating engines and a smattering of Serverless functions.",
        "Built a new unified development stack in AWS using Drone CI for builds and Flux for deployments.",
        "Architected cloud agnostic infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm, which reduced cost for the business and enabled us to shift between cloud providers with ease.",
        "New stack was adopted by the Data team, where they migrated their ETL tooling into the cluster and then later proved to be so successful that it was rolled out to the rest of the global organisation."
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      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/infotrack-au/",
      "location": "Sydney, Australia"
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    {
      "name": "InfoTrack Pty Ltd",
      "position": ".NET Developer",
      "startDate": "2014-11-30",
      "endDate": "2018-07-31",
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        "Created a corporate visualisation tool for government and council body documents using .NET 4.6, Neo4J Graph Database, React, Redux, Cytoscape.js.",
        "Used React and Redux to create a SPA web page using Cytoscape for the front end graph rendering engine in HTML5 Canvas.",
        "Wrote government data parsers in C# to convert data objects to POCOs and then to Graph objects to be saved to Neo4j.",
        "Lead the development of a redesign of the entire InfoTrack enterprise platform in React and MobX."
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      "summary": "Global Development Team",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/infotrack-au/",
      "location": "Sydney, Australia"
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    {
      "name": "Recommind",
      "position": "Junior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2012-04-30",
      "endDate": "2014-07-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Java, Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery Mobile - Worked on Web Based email management system called Decisiv Anywhere.",
        "Objective-C, PhoneGap, Cordova – Created an iOS application for Decisiv Anywhere for easy mobile access to the email management system.",
        "Created online document viewer (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF) using Java to COM library."
      ],
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/opentextdiscovery/"
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    {
      "name": "DibbsBarker",
      "position": "Junior Software Developer",
      "startDate": "2011-11-30",
      "endDate": "2012-05-31",
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        "Created iPhone and iPad application for Law Firm to display firm location, employees and latest news publications such as news articles and audio feeds.",
        "XML, HTML, CSS – Created easy to read news publication viewer for iOS application."
      ],
      "summary": "Contract role developing DibbsBarker iPhone application, including iPad version.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dibbsbarker/",
      "location": "Level 8, Angel Place  123 Pitt Street  Sydney NSW 2000"
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      "institution": "Macquarie University",
      "area": "Information Technology",
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      "startDate": "2013-12-31",
      "endDate": "2018-12-31"
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      "name": "DevOps",
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        "Bare Metal",
        "Kubernetes",
        "Terraform",
        "Docker",
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        "GitOps",
        "Flux",
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      "name": "Backend",
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        "Kafka"
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        "Angular",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Javascript",
        "Typescript"
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      "name": "GPU Programming",
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        "CUDA",
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        "Metal"
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    {
      "fluency": "Intermediate",
      "language": "Dutch"
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    {
      "fluency": "Native Speaker",
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    {
      "name": "TorrentChain",
      "startDate": "2018-01-01",
      "endDate": "2018-01-01",
      "description": "Created a distributed torrent file hosting platform on a self-made block chain. I aim to migrate this to a blockchain such as Bitcoin or Solana."
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    {
      "name": "TeleChatRelay",
      "startDate": "2016-01-01",
      "endDate": "2017-01-01",
      "description": "A tool I created to help my friend circumvent Chinese censorship, to allow them to communicate with our friend group even when blocked by the Great Firewall."
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