Drew Nelson
DevOps Engineer at SteadyIQ
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorDrew Nelson is a DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience architecting and operating cloud-native and big-data systems for startups and enterprises from Oakland, CA. He has a proven track record driving Kubernetes adoption, building cross-team automation and observability platforms, and delivering transformational projects such as an 80TB/day stream-processing pipeline that dramatically reduced costs and latency. Comfortable in high-stakes environments, Drew translates business objectives into pragmatic infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and cloud services while also developing training and playbooks to raise team capability. His background ranges from nuclear electronics in the US Navy to hands-on fabrication instruction, which gives him a practical, systems-minded approach and a knack for simplifying complex operational challenges. Currently enabling DevOps at SteadyIQ, he focuses on collaboration, measurable outcomes, and making automation accessible across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
api8
gitlab-ci8
gitlab-api7
gitlab7
python6
cartography5
ajax5
neo4j5
neo4j-database4
graph4
gcp4
database4
athena4
infrastructure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
inbloom/APP-student-grouping-tool
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 8 days
inbloom/APP-student-insights-tool
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Student Insights is a .Net and AJAX based tool that allows users to perform criteria based searches on student data.
Contributions:7 commits in 5 days
searchescriteriaajaxsearchinsights
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