Nick Maludy
Director Of Development at KeySpoke Systems
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolNick Maludy is a Director of Development with 11 years of experience leading engineering and DevOps teams from Cincinnati, Ohio. He combines hands-on software engineering and HPC/DevOps expertise to improve CI/CD, testing, and infrastructure for complex distributed systems, with a track record of shipping reliability and security-focused features. Nick has contributed to notable open-source projects like StackStorm, Puppet (including Bolt and puppetlabs-docker), and Puppetboard—improving test coverage, WinRM security flags, Docker Swarm detection, and documentation that helps operators run automation at scale. He moves fluidly between technical writing, backend engineering, and release/CI tooling, which helps align developer workflows with production stability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that reduce friction between development and operations while preserving observability and testability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science and Engineering at University of Toledo
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2docs
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
StackStorm Documentation.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 reviews, 73 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily involve documentation updates for the `st2docs` repository, which supports the StackStorm platform. Their commits focus on adding and clarifying documentation related to various aspects of StackStorm, including pack testing, datastore interaction with the st2client API, chatops troubleshooting, Mistral workflow validation tools, Jinja expression usage, and WinRM runners configuration. They also corrected code formatting and fixed typos within existing documentation.
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puppetlabs/bolt
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Bolt is an open source orchestration tool that automates the manual work it takes to maintain your infrastructure on an as-needed basis or as part of a greater orchestration workflow. It can be installed on your local workstation and connects directly to remote nodes with SSH or WinRM, so you are not required to install any agent software.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:75 commits, 24 PRs, 79 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick's primary contributions center around enhancing the Bolt orchestration tool. They implemented features related to WinRM transport, including adding `--[no-]ssl-verify` flags to manage SSL certificate verification, demonstrating a focus on security. The user also added plan logging functionality to better track plan execution. Furthermore, they addressed and fixed various linting and testing issues within the codebase, indicating a focus on quality and maintainability.
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