Matej Cotman
DevOps Consultant at Kiberpipa
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Cotman is a DevOps consultant with 13 years of experience building reliable, test-driven infrastructure and automation for cloud-native environments. Based in Helsinki, he blends deep hands-on expertise in Nix/NixOS, Docker, Kubernetes and FreeBSD jails with practical software engineering skills in Python, Node.js and shell scripting. He has a strong open-source track record, contributing back-end and CI/test improvements to the privacy-focused metasearch project searx, including overhauling build and robot test infrastructure. A longtime volunteer at the Kiberpipa hackerspace, he learned professional development practices there and still champions reproducible systems and thorough testing. Early tinkering with electronics and self-built IRC tooling underscores a lifelong curiosity for low-level problem solving and pragmatic tooling. Outside work he designs 3D-printed projects in OpenSCAD and Fusion360, reflecting a hands-on maker mindset that informs his engineering approach.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science
Github Skills (11)
search-engine10
robotframework10
python10
flask10
flask-ask10
build-automation10
testing10
searching9
metasearch9
css9
cicd7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
searx/searx
Jan 2014 - Mar 2018
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matej primarily worked on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. Their contributions included overhauling the build process, adding robot tests, and fixing issues with the robot framework. They also made code changes to the `searx/engines` and `searx/webapp` modules, suggesting they also contributed to the core functionality. The user packaged the `searx` egg and added support for optional requests using the GET method.
pythonmetasearchmetasearch-engineprivacysearch-engine
matejc/YoutubeDlQueue
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
youtube
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