Nick Korte
Staff Solution Engineer at The NetworkNerd Blog
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Korte is a solution-focused IT professional and former math teacher with a decade of systems administration and pre-sales engineering experience, now a Staff Solution Engineer at VMware and co-host of the Nerd Journey podcast. He specializes in VMware infrastructure, customer-facing technical strategy, and creating practical content—ranging from a long-running technical blog to internal and public video series used for global onboarding. Recognized as Solution Engineer of the Year and a multi-year vExpert, he blends hands-on architecture (vSAN, vSphere, backups, hybrid migrations) with storytelling and mentorship to help technologists navigate careers. Based in Fort Worth, he co-leads local SpiceCorps efforts and brings an educator’s curiosity to translating complex technical ideas into usable guidance for customers and listeners.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Industrial Mathematics at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (7)
fault-tolerant9
chaos-engineering8
vmware7
distributed-systems6
cloud-native6
fault-injection5
git4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TheNetworkNerd/Presentations
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
TheNetworkNerd/tnn-blog
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:42 pushes in 2 months
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