Nick Niehoff
Senior Engineer at CoreWeave
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Niehoff is a senior engineer based in Colorado with 10 years of professional engineering experience and a longer history in systems and infrastructure roles. He has progressed from systems administration and technical support into principal SRE and senior engineering roles, most recently at CoreWeave after leading SRE efforts at Network to Code. Nick blends backend development and DevOps expertise—contributing to the popular Nautobot network automation project by improving SSO, auth backends, and CI/CD health checks—showing a practical focus on secure, observable platforms. Comfortable across Linux systems, cloud-native operations, and automation, he repeatedly turns operational pain points into repeatable engineering solutions. Collected institutional experience spanning defense, enterprise, and open-source projects gives him a pragmatic, security-aware approach to building reliable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (17)
docker10
python10
django10
user-authentication10
authentication10
dockers10
cicd10
devops10
sso-authentication10
network-automation9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
postgresql8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nautobot/nautobot
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Network Source of Truth & Network Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:115 reviews, 59 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing the authentication and authorization mechanisms within the Nautobot platform, specifically integrating Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality. This involved modifications to the authentication backend, user management, and settings configurations. The user also focused on improving the CI/CD build process by enhancing the Travis CICD build, adding a health check endpoint and addressing several related tasks.
netmikopythonnetwork-automationtruthsot
nautobot/nautobot-app-capacity-metrics
Apr 2021 - May 2022
Prometheus metrics endpoints plugin for Nautobot
Contributions:3 releases, 18 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 1 month
nautobot-pluginprometheus-exporterendpointsnautobotprometheus-metrics
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