Nelson Roberts
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Roberts is a seasoned DevOps leader with 10+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure and many other platforms. He has led migrations and cost-optimization efforts at scale—most notably migrating a production fleet from AWS to GCP with zero customer impact and driving an 85% reduction in cloud costs. Nelson combines hands-on IaC expertise (Terraform, GitOps) with platform and observability engineering (Grafana, MongoDB Atlas, Cloudflare) and has run build automation supporting hundreds of repositories and teams. He’s guided GovCloud certification efforts and enterprise account governance while also championing open-source tooling like published Terraform modules for community use. Based in Tempe, Arizona, Nelson pairs strong operational discipline and Scrum leadership with a long track record of improving developer velocity and site reliability. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges product planning and execution to turn complex, legacy environments into maintainable, automated platforms.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Mesa Community College
English
Github Skills (67)
container-management10
rancher10
orchestration10
k8s10
kubelet10
k3d10
kubernetes10
container10
k3s10
cattle10
docker10
terraform9
rke9
terraform-provider9
flags9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
paraglade/drone-smoke-tests
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Tests to validate drone
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
dronevalidate
paraglade/rancher-docs
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Documentation for Rancher products (for 2.0/new site)
Contributions:64 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 7 months
dockerrancher
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