Nick's things

Hi, I'm Nick!

I’m an AWS Hero, I’m the founder of the Wollongong AWS User Group, co-founder of the Sydney Serverless Meetup and the beloved AWS-powered Serverless Christmas lights guy. I’ve created many AWS training courses and series (with over 1 million views on the A Cloud Guru platform), have assisted in the planning and operation of ServerlessConf (London, Austin) and ServerlessDays (Melbourne) conferences, and am currently running @nickexplainsaws on TikTok and YouTube.

Things I've created/done!

Year	Category	Details
2024		The runtime parameter of nodejs14.x is no longer supported for creating or updating AWS Lambda functions
		Test your mySQL / Aurora database with Lambda
2023		dev:Ember 2023 - xWings!
		Illawarra Mercury article
		AWS Hero announcement
		Ongoing episodes of Nick Explains AWS on TikTok and YouTube
		Allowing an AWS account to delegate DNS subdomains to another account in two simple CDK stacks
		July AWS Community builder open Mic - Serverless Christmas Lights
		Wollongong AWS meetup - Serverless Christmas Lights with AWS, SST and Svelte
		Co-organiser of Serverless Days ANZ Melbourne (2023) conference
		AWS User Group Wollongong re:Invent recap
		Using an event-based serverless architecture to run your Christmas lights
		AWS Community Builder (3rd year)
2022		dev:Ember 2022 – over 50,000 views and 4,000 likes
		AWS Cloud ANZ Twitter feature
		Illawarra Mercury Instagram feature
		Illawarra Mercury article
		ABC Illawarra TV interview
		AWS re:Invent 2022 Swag Review
		Founded the Wollongong AWS User Group Meetup
		Launched the Nick Explains AWS series on TikTok
		AWS Community Builder (2nd year)
2021		dev:Ember 2021 – combined over 50,000 Christmas light LEDs with AWS services
		The high-tech Christmas light display you control with a QR code and your phone - Featured on ABC News
		Regularly hosted AWS This Week for A Cloud Guru
		Created various episodes and series for the A Cloud Guru platform
		Created one of the most popular AWS introductory courses, Introduction to AWS
		AWS Community Builder (1st year)
2020		Regularly hosted AWS This Week for A Cloud Guru
		Created various episodes and series for the A Cloud Guru platform
2019		Co-host of the DeepRacer: The Fast and the Curious series
		Regularly hosted AWS This Week for A Cloud Guru
		AWS re:Invent 2019 Swag Review
2018		AWS re:Invent 2018 Swag Review
2017		Assisted in running ServerlessConf Austin
		Creator and presenter of the Alexa Devs series
		Creator of various projects and makerlabs using Alexa
		AWS re:Invent 2017 Swag Review
2016		Assisted in running ServerlessConf London
		Assisted in launching and running Sydney’s Serverless Meetup
		Released the world’s first AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification course
		AWS re:Invent 2016 Swag Review