Goran Nushkov is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Skopje with 8+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP and on-prem environments. He has led platform builds and migrations—authoring GitOps-driven Kubernetes platforms, reusable Terragrunt/Terraform modules, and automated GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines that scaled SaaS and telecom workloads. Goran’s hands-on work includes integrating Cilium for higher pod density and cost savings, hardening EKS for SOC 2 readiness, and evolving observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) for actionable insights. He contributes to open-source efforts such as improving CKAN installation on Ubuntu, showing a pragmatic blend of back-end and DevOps problem solving. With a master’s in structural engineering turned into a meticulous infrastructure practice, he brings engineering rigor and a systems-thinking mindset to complex distributed systems. Colleagues rely on him for clear documentation, repeatable platform patterns, and mentoring teams in GitOps and cloud-native best practices.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Civil Engineering Structural Branch, Master's degree Civil Engineering Structural Branch at Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metódij' vo Skopje
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Goran primarily focused on supporting the installation of CKAN on Ubuntu 18.04, addressing specific compatibility issues related to Solr and Jetty. The contributions involved modifying installation instructions, configuration files, and the virtual environment setup. The changes reflect a clear understanding of the dependencies and configuration nuances required for a functional CKAN deployment on Ubuntu, indicating a blend of back-end and DevOps expertise.
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 months
chartshelmhelm-chartskuberneteskubernetes-helm
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