Nick Shores
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GridCARE
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Shores is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building and running cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading SRE operations for energy software at GridCARE and running consulting work through Shores Tech. He blends deep networking and systems roots with modern DevOps practices—Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, observability stacks, and automated CI/CD—to deliver scalable, secure platforms. Nick has repeatedly modernized legacy estates into infrastructure-as-code pipelines and containerized deployments for enterprises like Raley’s and AutoGrid/Uplight, and he mentors teams while shaping technical direction. A lifelong tinkerer, he pairs professional work with a popular ops blog and home automation projects, reflecting a practical, curious approach to automation and tooling.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at California State University of Sacramento
Github Skills (71)
python10
mqtt10
home-automation10
iot10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
raspberry-pi10
azure9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
k3s9
ansible8
powercli8
azure-resource-manager8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nshores/k8s-home-ops
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The configuration for my home k8s environment
Contributions:2 reviews, 160 commits, 140 PRs in 6 months
k8sansiblek3sk8s-at-homekubernetes
nshores/ansible
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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