Nicolai Willems
Platform Engineer
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolNicolai Willems is a Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience ensuring reliable SDLCs through pragmatic DevOps and CI/CD practices, primarily targeting cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes across AWS and Azure. He has a strong track record of building deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, and cloud CLIs while shipping services in Go, Python and JavaScript. His background spans startups and enterprise teams—from designing Adobe Experience Platform integrations and event-driven services to migrating mature products toward Kubernetes and automated deployments. Colleague-focused and value-driven, he balances clear technical opinions with a collaborative style that prioritizes getting the right outcome over being right. Based in Copenhagen, he brings leadership experience from community roles in FDF and a practical, hands-on approach to platform reliability and developer productivity. An understated strength is his aptitude for bridging architecture to day-to-day operations, turning complex integration needs into maintainable deployment solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at IT-College DenmarkGrenaa Tekniske Skole
Danish, English
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Github Skills (153)
controller10
libsvm10
packer10
proxy-server10
vagrant-plugin10
nginx10
async9
javascript9
linux9
queue9
vagrant9
smtp-server9
python9
single-source9
optimization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nwillems/authentic-vue-experiment
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
An experiment on using https://github.com/davidguttman/authentic for Vue login
Contributions:11 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 1 month
vuevue-loginvuejs
nwillems/gBlogging-interface
May 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
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