Nick Nellis
Field Engineer at solo.io
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nellis is a Field Engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin with nine years of hands-on experience delivering cloud-native and networking solutions. At solo.io he combines on-call troubleshooting, customer-facing engagements, and deep technical work to help teams adopt service mesh and proxy technologies. He is an active contributor to Istio, adding practical tooling to istioctl for Envoy metrics and enhancing security features like TLS secret handling and CA bundle detection. Nick brings a pragmatic DevOps mindset—bridging backend engineering, observability, and security—to simplify complex distributed systems for operators. His background includes a BS from Saint Cloud State University and a track record of turning subtle integration issues into repeatable processes that improve reliability in production.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Saint Cloud State University
Github Skills (20)
env10
apim10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
api-design10
ioctl10
io10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
istio10
convoy10
dockers9
cicd9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 7 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Istio project by implementing features related to bug reporting, including passing kubeconfig and context parameters. They also added functionality to the `istioctl` command-line tool, specifically the `proxy-config stats` command, enabling retrieval of Envoy metrics in various formats, and later enhanced this with support for Prometheus merged metrics. Furthermore, the user worked on security aspects, adding the ability to read TLS-type secrets and integrating automated detection of the signing CA bundle format.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
nmnellis/api
Feb 2018 - Jun 2023
API, config definitions and standard vocabulary definitions for the Istio project
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
apiistiokubernetesconfigdefinitions
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