Nico Krapp
Software Engineer at SUSE
Germany
Summary
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RockstarNico Krapp is a software engineer based in Germany with four years of hands-on experience building backend and DevOps tooling for Linux infrastructure. He contributes actively to prominent open-source projects like Uyuni and Cobbler, focusing on backend robustness, package/repository handling, and deploy automation. His work shows attention to reliability—adding proxy support, tightening URL parsing, and improving test coverage—while also touching documentation and migration tasks. Comfortable across Python backend code and service orchestration, he blends developer-first engineering with operational pragmatism. Notably, his contributions improve real-world Linux deployment and management workflows used by infrastructure teams.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
yum10
git10
deploying10
python10
testing10
git-repository10
repo-management10
management10
repository-pattern10
linux9
system-management9
automation9
automations9
documentation8
bash8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cobbler/cobbler
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 reviews, 20 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nico's contributions primarily involved refactoring and updating code related to shell options and tests within the Cobbler deployment server. They made changes to various modules, including those handling source control management (SCM) like Git and Mercurial, and actions like sync and reposync. The user's work also included bumping the version, adding settings migration, formatting code, and adding documentation for the HTTP API, demonstrating a focus on both backend functionality and infrastructure. The user demonstrated DevOps skills by modifying files related to service restarts and testing.
tftppythondeploymentlinuxdocker
uyuni-project/uyuni
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Source code for Uyuni
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Nico's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `uyuni` project's backend infrastructure. They made modifications to the `yum_src.py` file, implementing features like proxy support for repository URLs, and improving URL parsing. The user also improved test coverage by adding new test cases for proxy usage with mirrorlists and URL handling, along with refactoring and cleaning up existing tests.
spring-bootpythonuyunisuse-managerlinux
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