Nick Gerace
Software Engineer at East River Source Control
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Gerace is a software engineer with eight years of experience building resilient, high-throughput backend and DevOps systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native tooling—especially Kubernetes, Fleet, and Helm—where his contributions helped stabilize Rancher releases, add Windows support, and fix Kubernetes CRD regressions at scale. At System Initiative he co-architected NATS JetStream-based real-time services and led throughput-heavy backend engines using Rust, PostgreSQL, and sophisticated DAG-based data models. He blends individual contributor impact with leadership experience—running on-call rotations, serving on a technical leadership council, and managing engineers—while also founding WakeHacks and teaching peers through internal bootcamps. Nick is as comfortable shipping automation-focused Python tooling and SRE improvements as he is solving distributed systems race conditions and release engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Wake Forest University
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
docker10
rancher10
dockers10
cicd10
gitops10
automation10
go10
helm10
ci-cd-pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
automations10
container9
logging9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/charts
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Github based Helm Chart Index Repository providing charts crafted for Rancher Manager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:419 reviews, 187 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily focused on updating and modifying Helm chart configurations within the `rancher/charts` repository. They addressed issues related to logging, updating dependencies, and ensuring the proper functioning of various components. The user's work involved adapting configurations for specific environments, such as Windows, and modifying chart definitions to align with the latest releases and updates. These changes impacted deployments related to rancher-gatekeeper and other components.
rancher/fleet
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Deploy workloads from Git to large fleets of Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 279 reviews, 95 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the `rancher/fleet` project. Their contributions included adding Windows support and consolidating drone pipelines, updating Kubernetes dependencies, and ensuring the system's continued operation during upgrades. They also modified the deployment configurations to include Linux tolerations and addressed race conditions with the Fleet agent secrets, highlighting their focus on operational reliability.
clusterskubernetes-clustersk8skubernetesgitops
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