Matt Nikkel
Senior Sales Engineer at Caveonix
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Nikkel is a Senior Sales Engineer with a decade of experience translating complex cloud-native and enterprise software into deployable solutions for federal and commercial customers. He has progressed from software and application engineering roles to field and federal sales engineering positions at Rancher, Harness, and now Caveonix, blending hands-on technical fluency with customer-facing solution design. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he specializes in bridging engineering and sales to accelerate adoption of infrastructure and security-focused platforms. His background in computer engineering from Virginia Tech and early embedded/software internships gives him a practitioner’s grasp of both low-level systems and high-level orchestration—an advantage when designing practical, auditable solutions for regulated environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (76)
container-management10
rancher10
orchestration10
documented10
voice10
kubernetes10
container10
cattle10
docker10
discord10
discord-bot10
discord-py10
discord-js9
api9
cli9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nikkelma/rancher-quickstart
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 69 pushes, 49 branches in 10 months
nikkelma/rancher-rancher
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Complete container management platform
Contributions:31 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
containersdockerkubernetescontainer-managementcontainer
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