Nick Checan
Staff Software Engineer - DevOps Team at John Deere
Moline, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Checan is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in DevOps at John Deere with over a decade of hands-on experience building infrastructure and data-driven solutions. He progressed from SAP ABAP and BI work into cloud-native DevOps and procurement platform engineering, combining deep enterprise systems knowledge with modern automation practices. Certified and MBA-trained in software architecture, he excels at translating complex business requirements into reliable, auditable pipelines and tooling. Based in Moline, Illinois, he brings a pragmatic engineering style and an atypical personal blend of big data enthusiasm and death metal taste that speaks to his focused but lively problem-solving approach.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Database Technology, Associate's degree, Database Technology at FATEC - Faculdade de Técnologia de São PauloMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Software Architecture, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Software Architecture at Instituto de Gestão e Tecnologia da Informação
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
sap10
copilot10
cloud-foundry9
java9
ide9
abap9
eclipse9
cli8
specification8
ai8
flask-application7
docker7
gpt7
cf-cli6
hana6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nickchecan/zjoule
Dec 2024 - Nov 2025
An Eclipse AI Assistant that connects with SAP AI Core deployments to provide a "copilot" experience to ABAP Developers on the cloud and on-premise
Contributions:8 releases, 27 PRs, 121 pushes in 10 months
abapaieclipsesapassistant
NickChecan/hana-to-python
Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
A common Python Flask application with access to a Hana trial instance provided by SAP
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
flask-applicationhanapythonsap
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