Mike Nisk
Automation Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Nisk is an Automation Engineer based in Chicago with 10 years of hands-on experience designing and supporting large-scale virtualization and automation initiatives. He has led major VMware projects across enterprise datacenters—migrating thousands of servers, architecting vSphere infrastructures, and integrating storage and caching solutions for VDI and production environments. At Spencer Stuart he focuses on deploying and supporting global virtualization efforts, drawing on prior roles at BCBSA, Zurich, EMC and others where he served as technical lead for complex migrations and datacenter consolidations. Specializing in PowerShell automation, he combines deep systems knowledge with scripting to streamline operations and reduce manual toil. An unusual combination of a sound engineering degree and long-term infrastructure focus gives him a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to problem solving and automation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Sound Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Sound Engineering at Columbia College Chicago
Stackoverflow
540reputation
54kreached
11answers
16questions
Github Skills (30)
linux10
command-line10
powershell10
influx9
windows9
powercli9
database9
macos9
shell9
netcore9
rust8
react8
scalable8
time-series8
datastore8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmkdaily/vFlux-Stats-Kit
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
PowerCLI scripts to gather VMware performance stats and write them to InfluxDB
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 months
powercliinfluxinfluxdbperformancestats
vmkdaily/VMToolsOnline
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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