Kaspars Skels
Senior Software Engineer - Data
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKaspars Skels is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in DevOps, cloud-native infrastructure, and data pipelines, currently focusing on data engineering at Apptronik in Austin. He has deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and zero-touch provisioning from roles at Red Hat and Ericsson, and applied that to autonomous vehicle sensor data and infrastructure at Gatik. Kaspars blends systems-level engineering (containerizing complex telecom baseband toolchains) with practical product and deployment work (Airship/OpenStack, Argo workflows, Jenkins/Artifactory). Known for shipping end-to-end automation across bare-metal, cloud, and edge environments, he thrives on making complex distributed systems reproducible and operable. His background in electrical engineering and long tenure at Ericsson give him a strong systems foundation that informs pragmatic solutions in cutting-edge robotics and AV data workflows.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
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Github Skills (50)
architecture10
continuous-testing9
cicd9
continuous-integration9
deployer8
continuous-delivery8
yaml-configuration8
devops7
artifacts7
kubernetes-helm7
kubernetes-deployment7
external6
android6
declarative6
ansible6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peteb/tankage
Feb 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:125 commits in 1 month
att-comdev/cicd
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
continuous integration and continuous delivery
Contributions:56 commits in 1 year 10 months
continuous-testingdevopscontinuouscontinuous-integrationcontinuous-delivery
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