Nick Gubb

    Senior Consultant

    Wellington

    Azure FundamentalsScrum Alliance CAL1Scrum Alliance CAL2ICAgile certified professional

    Azure FundamentalsScrum Alliance CAL1Scrum Alliance CAL2ICAgile certified professional

    Nick Gubb

    Nick has been working in the ICT sector for eight years, delivering solutions, leading and coaching teams and customers in ways of working.

    He credits his successes in IT to working with people in leadership and customer service roles, which laid the foundation for his empathetic approach to working with people.

    Whether through Agile and Scrum, pushing for consistency in processes around environments and releases or incorporating cloud cost optimisation frameworks, he reveals his passion for getting teams working more efficiently.

    Working with software development and platform delivery teams, he introduced Agile and Scrum principles, using his technology understanding to reduce toil through automation. As a result, the teams could better visualise workloads, identify delivery constraints, and drive a culture fostering inclusivity, fun and the delivery of excellent results.

    He is also a DevOps and site reliability champion, unlocking the benefits an enterprise-level view over a cloud platform can offer around monitoring, alerting and cost optimisation.

    Nick's strengths include the following:

    • Team leadership
    • Azure DevOps setup, migration and training
      Process improvement and automation
    • Agile, Scrum and Kanban
    • FinOps establishment
    • Culture-driven
    • Communication
    • Site Reliability

    "It all boils down to people. Platforms and processes won't help until the people have bought into what you are trying to achieve. I believe in creating empowered teams based on a collective vision to achieve strategic goals."

    Outside of work, Nick enjoys tinkering with anything DIY, dabbling in Boxing (and assisting with Corporate Boxing events) and spending time with whānau.

    Nick's lastest blog posts

    How to manage your Imposter Syndrome
    Imposter Syndrome

    How to manage your Imposter Syndrome

    Welcome to part two of this two-part series on Imposter Syndrome. In this final part, Nick Gubb writes about how you can manage your Imposter Syndrome.

    18 September 2023 5 min read
    Imposter Syndrome Or: Am I doing it right?
    Imposter Syndrome

    Imposter Syndrome Or: Am I doing it right?

    This week I dusted off a presentation I put together almost half a dozen years ago. It was enlightening digging out something and seeing how I've changed (evolved even!). It got me reminiscing on the trials and tribulations of my career to date while dealing with frequent bouts of Imposter Syndrome.

    11 September 2023 3 min read
    Culture change

    Culture change

    Everyone wants to work somewhere they feel valued, listened to and not taken for granted. Somewhere that actively works in the best interests of their employees through coaching, training and career development.

    31 July 2023 4 min read
    IT culture

    IT culture

    Having just been on the hunt for a new role, I knew that the organisation culture took up one of the spaces on my top three list of non-negotiables.

    25 July 2023 4 min read
    People, not resources

    People, not resources

    Perhaps it's a personal pet peeve, a sign of a broader shift in cultural understanding or just a case of how language constantly evolves. Still, I have an issue when people refer to others as "resources".

    20 July 2023 3 min read