Nick Wilburn
Openstack Engineer at Rincon Research Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarNick Wilburn is an OpenStack engineer based in San Antonio with a decade of experience building infrastructure for critical systems, high-performance computing, and research environments. He focuses on OpenStack, container technologies, Python, and Ansible, pairing hands-on Linux administration with automation and security compliance. At Global InfoTek and Rincon Research he has driven OpenStack deployments and cloud automation while contributing upstream to Ansible projects like AWX and Molecule—adding notification integrations and test cleanup features that improve real-world operability. Nick’s work blends backend integration expertise with pragmatic tooling improvements, and he has a knack for tightening testing and notification workflows that many operators take for granted. Quietly practical and community-minded, he combines production engineering with meaningful open-source contributions to make infrastructure more reliable and automatable.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
python10
django10
testing10
mattermost10
automation10
notification10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
test-framework9
dockers9
devtools9
docker9
rest-api8
testinfra8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/molecule
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 24 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the automation and improvement of the Ansible Molecule testing framework. Their work included adding a cleanup step to the testing process, allowing for the removal of resources provisioned outside the Molecule environment, as well as implementing features to support per-environment ephemeral directories, especially beneficial when using tools like Detox. They also addressed a typo in the Openstack driver documentation and updated test configurations.
ansible-rolespythontesting-frameworktestingansible
ansible/awx
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the implementation of Mattermost notification integration within the AWX project, a web-based interface for Ansible. Their work involved creating a Mattermost backend, including configuration options for the target URL and SSL verification. Furthermore, the user made changes across multiple files to incorporate Mattermost notification functionality into the AWX user interface and backend, demonstrating a focus on adding features and expanding notification options. This suggests a focus on backend and integration within the context of the Ansible automation platform.
pythondjangored-hathatupstream
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