Summary
Nick Aubert is a senior system engineer with over a decade of experience designing, hardening, and operating mission-critical Unix/Linux infrastructure across federal, commercial, and high-throughput data environments. He blends hands-on administration (RHCE, CCNA) with automation—building Ansible, Puppet, and Kubernetes solutions to migrate legacy systems to cloud-native platforms and reduce operational toil. Nick has a strong track record in monitoring and observability, consolidating disparate Icinga/Zabbix/Zenoss stacks into coherent alerting with Grafana and Nagios to turn floods of noise into actionable signals. He’s solved high-scale data challenges—managing pipelines that handled billions of daily records and transitioning systems to Cassandra—while also developing networking tools like WireGuard deployments and IP blackholing for defense. Colleagues rely on him to untangle legacy complexity and deliver pragmatic, auditable fixes that balance reliability, security, and developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Philosophy Psychology, BS Philosophy Psychology at Virginia Tech
French, Chinese