Mads Nielsen
DevOps Engineer at CEGO
Støvring, North Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMads Nielsen is a DevOps Engineer with 14 years of experience optimizing development workflows through tooling and automation at CEGO. He combines back-end and full-stack skills to improve resilience and developer experience, contributing to notable open-source projects like cloudflared (adding tunnel health and ready checks) and gitlab-ci-local (enhancing local CI runner behavior on Linux and adding allow_failure/after_script support). Based in North Denmark, he focuses on making build, logging, and caching pipelines more reliable and efficient. Known for pragmatic, test-driven contributions, he often bridges the gap between operational needs and developer ergonomics.
14 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Associate's degree, Computer Software Engineering at UCN - University College Nordjylland
Github Skills (19)
docker10
reverse-proxy10
gitlab-ci10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
gitlab10
script10
go10
command-line10
sh10
shell10
cli10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
firecow/gitlab-ci-local
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Tired of pushing to test your .gitlab-ci.yml?
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 releases, 436 reviews, 2074 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mads primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `gitlab-ci-local` project. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of the local runner, making it more resilient and compatible with Linux environments. They also implemented features such as support for `allow_failure`, `after_script`, and various environment variables. Moreover, the user addressed bugs and made improvements to the project's build process, logging, and caching.
gitlab-cipushuncomittedpipelinegitlab
cloudflare/cloudflared
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 24 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mads primarily focused on adding and modifying functionalities related to the "tunnel" command within the cloudflared client. Their contributions involved implementing a health command to check the tunnel's status, renaming and adjusting the usage of this command. They updated the code to make it more efficient and integrated changes from the master branch, ensuring the health check functionality was correctly implemented, tested, and integrated with the existing codebase. The user also updated the codebase to include a command for the ready endpoint.
argo-tunnelproxycloudflarecloudflare-tunnelzero-trust-network-access
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