Nick Venenga
Staff DevOps Engineer at 15Five
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Venenga is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating cloud-native, cost-conscious distributed systems from Columbus, Ohio. He focuses on containers, automation, Kubernetes, observability and Terraform-driven infrastructure, and has repeatedly cut cloud spend while improving performance (notably “making Python go fast” and shrinking AWS bills). His background spans SRE and DevOps roles at 15Five, Aware, MariaDB, Root Insurance and JPMorgan, delivering migrations, low-downtime Postgres work, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and IaC across Azure, AWS, GKE/EKS/AKS. Known for a deep operational context window and pragmatic engineering, he blends hands-on coding in Python and Go with platform-level reliability and cost optimization.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Greenville High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Miami University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
automation10
buildroot10
camera10
home-automation10
terraform-provider10
mashup10
python10
terraform10
opentelemetry10
home-assistant10
ssh10
mqtt10
kubernetes10
kubeadm10
visualize10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
nijave/quartz-test
Aug 2016 - Oct 2023
Testing out Quartz Java job scheduler
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
javajob-schedulerquartztesting
nijave/kubelet-rubber-stamp
Aug 2021 - Jun 2026
Simple CSR approver for Kubernetes
Contributions:20 PRs, 36 pushes, 21 branches in 4 years 10 months
kubernetescsr
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