Nels Nelson
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Procore Technologies
Round Rock, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNels Nelson is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience designing, implementing, and operating highly available infrastructure and CI/CD systems across multiple cloud platforms. He has driven platform engineering and incident management at Procore after shaping disaster recovery programs and on-call practices at Texas Mutual and GitLab. His background includes deep Postgres management, configuration automation, and building developer-facing CI/CD pipelines, with earlier work spanning web services, data engineering, and desktop data-analysis tools. Comfortable on-call and in the weeds of system reliability, he combines pragmatic automation with a focus on observability and recoverability. Based in Round Rock, Texas, Nels blends long-term stewardship—having grown through a decade at Rackspace—with a hands-on craft sensibility for sustainable operations. Colleagues would describe him simply as a human being who delights in building robust systems that keep teams moving.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nelsnelson/stardate
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
nelsnelson/rummage-java
Dec 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
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