Erik Nadel
Senior Software Engineer at Cloudflare
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Nadel is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He has driven DevOps culture and migrations—writing Go tooling for Kubernetes moves, maintaining Terraform and Ansible modules, and automating deployments across AWS/ECS with Buildkite. At Cloudflare and prior roles he focused on reliability, cost reduction, and faster deploys, and he contributed meaningful enhancements to the popular Ansible Molecule project (Docker provisioning, privileged mode, volume mounts). Practical and detail-oriented, he blends hands-on systems programming with infrastructure design and documentation, and often authors in-house RFCs to improve production practices.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.48, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 3.48 at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School, 3.9, High School, 3.9 at The Walker School
English
Github Skills (13)
testing10
ansible-galaxy10
test-framework10
docker10
automation10
automations10
python10
dockers10
cicd10
ansible10
yaml9
devtools9
bash7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/molecule
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits, 21 PRs, 199 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily focused on enhancing the Ansible Molecule testing framework. Their contributions included adding support for Docker provisioning, implementing features like privileged mode for Docker containers, and integrating volume mounting capabilities within Docker containers. The user also addressed bugs and added improvements for test execution and infrastructure. They also made changes to the documentation.
ansible-rolespythontesting-frameworktestingansible
kireledan/molecule
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 187 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 4 months
ansible-rolesautomated-testingtestingansibleautomation
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