Braze
Senior Devops Engineer
March 2021 - Present, Chicago, IL
Cloud Operations, K8s Enablement and Developer Tooling
Phillip Nielsen
Software Engineer, Soccer Guy and cool container cat
Hi Everyone. If you found this page, you probably are just as passionate about software as I am. Currently working on Cloud Infrastruction for Kubernetes and Developer tools, mostly written in Go. Interested in Cloud Computing, Security, Containers, and Continuous Integration and Deployments. This page runs on AWS Lambda.
Journera
(Senior) Devops Engineer
May 2018 - March 2021, Chicago, IL
Build all the things, from Cloud infrastructure with Terraform, to building build tools in Golang, and maybe even some data engineering with Glue, Redshift and Sagemaker
Capital One
Software Engineer
2016 - May 2018, Chicago, IL
Cloud Engineering and Application Deployment Automation. Develop automated frameworks for building and deploy applications into AWS using Docker, Jenkins and Terraform.
Capital One Digital Lab
Software Engineering Intern
2015 - 2016, Champaign, IL
Security Researcher and Developer. Built Internal Application for testing Open Source Security and Data Management tools. Also Built a .NET and C# Web Application Development for internal application.
Crowe Horwath
Performance Engineering Intern
2014, Chicago, IL
Added several new features and fixed numerous bugs on new web application. Performed and analyzed client mandated load testing for high profile client. ASP.NET & C# web application
University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Champaign, IL
2012-2016
Coursework in: Analog Signal Processing, Computer Security, Computer Systems Engineering, Data Structures and Programming Principles, Fields and Waves, Operating System Development, Algorithms, Audio Engineering, and Software Engineering.
Terraform
All of my cloud infrastructure is deployed as code, using terraform. Dabbling in terraform cloud and creating some crazy modules for reuse.
AWS
I use AWS for pretty much everything and have used many of their services extensively, from EC2 to XRay.
Kubernetes
I've spent a significant amount of time diving into the K8s landscape and have begun using it for both work and my homelab.
