I’m Nelson. I’m a Software Engineer with professional experience using technologies like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services. I started this blog to share things I learn and to occasionally rant.
Experience
Cloud Support Engineer II @ Pulumi (Aug 2024 - Present)
Software Engineer @ Robinhood (Jan - Nov 2023)
Software Engineer IV @ Edmunds (2020 - 2022)
Junior DevOps Engineer @ Vitu (2019 - 2020)
Software Engineer @ CSU Northridge (2018 - 2019)
Skills
Programming Languages: Ruby, Python, Bash, Go
Web Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap CSS, Bulma CSS
Databases: MySQL, SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, Serverless, CloudFormation, CI/CD (Google Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform
Operating Systems: macOS, Linux (Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Amazon Linux, Alpine Linux)
Other: Command Line, Git, Agile, Scrum, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Certifications
Education
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology (2019)
Open Source Contributions
- Maintainer and contributor to the tldr-pages project. tldr-pages is a simplified and community-driven “cheat sheet” for command line tools.
- Contributed practical examples for CLI tools such as
rails,terraform,minikube,kubectl,hugo, andpulumi. See all my contributions here.
Interests
Technology
Programming/Coding, DevOps/Cloud/Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Privacy
Hobbies
- Electric Guitar
- Videogames
Games
Shows
- Better Call Saul
- Breaking Bad
- The Mandalorian
- The Eric Andre Show
- The Boys
- Succession
- Invincible
- BoJack Horseman
- Silicon Valley
- The Boondocks
- The Bear
- Smiling Friends
Movies
Music
I mainly listen to metal. My Bandcamp collection is public if you’re curious.
My Links
Get in Touch
You can get in touch with me on
LinkedIn or by sending an email to nelson@<this domain>.
