Hello

Phillip Nielsen

Software Engineer, Soccer Guy and cool container cat

Chicago, IL


About

Currently working on Cloud Infrastructure for Kubernetes and Developer tools, mostly written in Go. Interested in Cloud Computing, Security, Containers, and Continuous Integration and Deployments.


Links

01GitHub
02LinkedIn
03Twitter

Experience

Mercury — Senior Infrastructure Engineer

2024 – Present

Cloud Infrastructure, via Nix, Terraform and ECS

Braze — Senior DevOps Engineer

2021 – 2024

Cloud Operations, K8s Enablement and Developer Tooling

Journera — (Senior) DevOps Engineer

2018 – 2021

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 – 2018

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 — SWE Intern

2015 – 2016

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

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


Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS Computer Engineering

2012 – 2016


Skills

TerraformAWSKubernetesGoDockerCI/CD