Nicholas Lotz
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Lotz is an engineer focused on technical enablement, helping teams use software to solve real business problems by removing technological and organizational barriers. He specializes in infrastructure automation and operational transparency with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, C++, Salt, and Ansible, and a background in open-source infrastructure like Ceph and OpenStack. Trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, he brings a systems-thinking approach and academic interest in applying control theory and process concepts to digital networks. Nicholas is authoring the second edition of a CI/CD modernization book, signaling a practical commitment to improving developer workflows and delivery. Based in Nashville, he combines operational rigor with a focus on security and transparency across the entire software stack.
3 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering
English, French
Github Skills (7)
gitops8
harness8
cli6
command-line5
react5
typescript4
nextjs4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nicholaslotz/applicationset
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
The ApplicationSet controller manages multiple Argo CD Applications as a single ApplicationSet unit, supporting deployments to large numbers of clusters, deployments of large monorepos, and enabling secure Application self-service.
Contributions:41 PRs, 59 pushes, 39 branches in 7 days
nicholaslotz/developer-hub
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
Harness Developer Hub
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
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