NicholasĀ Gerstle
Principal Software Engineer at Cognite
Greater Oslo Region Norway
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Top SchoolNicholas Gerstle is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Greater Oslo Region with 13 years of experience building cloud-native systems and shaping architecture at Cognite. He progressed from senior engineer to group architect and now principal, blending hands-on engineering with strategic oversight across distributed systems, security, and DevOps. His background includes information security work at Telenor and early FPGA and research roles, giving him a strong systems and hardware-aware perspective uncommon in cloud architects. An active contributor to ops-focused open source (notably containerizing duo-labs/cloudmapper), he emphasizes automation, lightweight container images, and reliable deployment pipelines. He holds engineering degrees from Colorado School of Mines and advanced degrees from NTNU, bringing both academic rigor and practical delivery to complex industrial data problems. Colleagues know him for turning infrastructure challenges into repeatable, production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Colorado School of MinesNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (9)
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
dockers10
python9
automation9
automations9
bash8
infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
duo-labs/cloudmapper
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas focused on containerizing the CloudMapper application using Docker, indicating a focus on infrastructure and deployment. Their commits demonstrate efforts to create a Dockerfile and entrypoint scripts, moving the project to an Alpine-based image for a smaller footprint. They modified the application's entry point, including the gathering and preparation processes. These changes suggest a DevOps-centric approach focused on automating the application's build and deployment.
aws-web-servicessecurityamazonaws-lambdaweb-services
ngerstle/nixpkgs
Jul 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 24 branches in 5 years 3 months
nixosnix-packages
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