Summary
Nicholas Fernandes is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years building cloud-native and embedded systems, currently driving Rancher Manager’s Helm chart release process at SUSE for infrastructure that handles hundreds of millions of daily requests and serves 60% of Forbes 500 clients. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and GitHub Actions, combining automation of complex release pipelines with hands-on cluster deployment and post-release monitoring. Nicholas has a strong backend footprint across Node.js, TypeScript, SQL and GCP, and a history in embedded C and IoT protocols, which gives him a rare full-stack view from device firmware to production Kubernetes platforms. He’s practiced in test-driven development and operational reliability, routinely writing integration tests and documentation while coordinating international teams. Colleagues rely on him to ensure high-availability features are ship-ready and resilient at scale, and he often leverages infrastructure-as-code to iterate clusters and validate releases rapidly.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
nano degree Full Stack Web Development, nano degree Full Stack Web Development at Udacity
Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações - Inatel
English, Portuguese