Nick Ellson
Tigard, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorNick Ellson is a seasoned network engineer with 11+ years in enterprise networking, currently serving as Network Engineer IV at Columbia Sportswear. He holds CCIE #20018-Emeritus, CWNA, and Azure Fundamentals certifications, and specializes in firewalls, routing and switching, and wireless administration. His career spans public and private sectors, including long tenures at Portland General Electric and hands-on network work for the Bureau of Land Management where he progressed from Novell administration to advanced Cisco credentials. He also taught CCNA/CCNP courses at Portland Community College, demonstrating a knack for translating complex networking concepts into practical skills. Based in Tigard, Oregon, Nick blends deep technical expertise with instructional experience and a history of evolving legacy systems into modern Cisco-based infrastructures. Colleagues value his steady, certification-backed approach to resilient, secure network design and operations.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (50)
docker9
automation9
home-assistant9
iot8
platformio7
ssh-connection6
arduino6
surveillance6
ide6
firmware6
esp82666
debugging6
paramiko5
arm5
esp325
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
42Firehawk/Arduino-Knowledge-Bowl
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
nickolas1969/python-play
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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