Mitchell Nielsen
Senior Platform Engineer
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMitchell Nielsen is a Senior Platform Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native backend and platform tooling, currently advancing Prefect’s platform in Minneapolis. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, operators, CI/CD and DevOps transformation from roles at GitLab and GE Transportation where he modernized deployment pipelines and saved substantial operational costs. Mitchell’s background blends practical product rollout experience—driving one of GE’s smoothest manufacturing system launches—with open platform engineering work on distribution tooling and cloud migrations. He moves fluidly between architecting repeatable platform components and shipping the automation that makes teams faster and more reliable. Known for translating complex infrastructure needs into pragmatic, standardized toolchains, he’s equally comfortable debugging operators as mentoring teams on best practices. Outside of core platform work, he brings a user-focused mindset from earlier product and support roles that helps bridge developer experience and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Information Systems and Operations Management, Master’s Degree Information Systems and Operations Management at University of Florida - Warrington College of Business
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Github Skills (54)
kubernetes10
observability10
deploying10
dataflow10
catalog10
prefect10
python10
data-science10
data-engineering10
container-cop10
lifecycle10
kubernetes-operator10
metadata10
workflow-engine10
terraform10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PrefectHQ/prefect-operator
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
A Kubernetes operator for managing Prefect servers and work pools
Contributions:4 releases, 68 reviews, 64 PRs in 7 months
mitchnielsen/community-operators
Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
The canonical source for Kubernetes Operators that are published on OperatorHub.io and part of the default catalog of the Operator Lifecycle Manager.
Contributions:18 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year
kubernetes-operatorsoperator-sdklifecycleoperator-lifecycle-manageroperator
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