Nicolas Dufour
Senior Staff SRE at Nav Technologies, Inc.
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Dufour is a Senior Staff SRE with nearly two decades of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments. He blends deep Linux and systems roots with extensive AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps practice, having led migrations, cluster builds, and IaC at companies from Time Inc. to Sectigo and Nav Technologies. Nicolas pairs platform engineering with application-facing work—deploying Certificate Transparency services and building repeatable lift-and-shift automation—so he thinks in both operational reliability and developer productivity. He also brings a unique geoscience background (geophysics/geochemistry) that informs a curiosity-driven approach to complex systems and occasional side projects in “weird physics” areas. Based in New Jersey, he’s comfortable in tight teams or as a technical lead, consistently turning legacy setups into automated, observable platforms. Colleagues describe him as a creative problem-solver who favors pragmatic, testable solutions over theoretical perfection.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ASc, Biology, ASc, Biology at Université Paris CitéMaster, Computer/Geoscience, Master, Computer/Geoscience at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (78)
yaml10
json10
rebar10
toml10
command-line-parser9
cli9
command-line-tool9
cli-framework9
command-line9
argument-parsing9
golang8
issue-tracking8
csv-reader8
go8
csv-parser8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nrdufour/orange
Apr 2010 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
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