Nicolas Kammerdiener
Owner at HanaByte
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Kammerdiener is a Full-Stack developer and DevOps-focused systems engineer with eight years of experience building secure, production-grade cloud infrastructure and macOS DevOps solutions for Fortune 500 clients. As owner of Kammerdiener Technologies and a hands-on contributor to projects like Passport and Gitcoin’s grants-stack, he specializes in infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi), AWS architecture, CI/CD automation, and operational readiness. His background spans startup product work and enterprise systems engineering—designing Kubernetes, RBAC, and bare-metal storage solutions and provisioning dozens of production clusters with Ansible. Nicolas combines technical leadership with teaching and community roles (adjunct professor, BSides coordinator, arts board member), reflecting a rare blend of practical engineering, security consulting, and public engagement. He prioritizes collaborative, cross-training teams that balance clear boundaries with proactive problem-solving to deliver resilient, auditable systems. Outside core engineering, he brings blockchain and deep learning study into pragmatic deployments, highlighting a continuous-learning mindset applied to real-world operations.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain Developer, Blockchain Developer at UdacityMaster of Science in Information Systems - MSIS, Master of Science in Information Systems - MSIS at Kennesaw State University
English, German
Stackoverflow
3reputation
57reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (27)
github-ci10
docker10
postgresql10
amazon-ecs10
load-balancing10
dockers10
cicd10
pulumi10
aws10
aws-ecs10
infrastructure-as-code10
githubaction-workflow10
redis9
amazon-cloudfront9
terraform7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/grants-stack
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Round Manager & Grant Explorer & Project Builder of the Grants Protocol
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:91 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas's primary focus was setting up and configuring the infrastructure for the `grants-stack` repository. They made significant changes to the infrastructure-as-code, initially setting up staging infrastructure using Pulumi and AWS services like KMS, VPC, RDS, ECR, and ECS. They then proceeded to create GitHub Actions workflows and deployed staging infrastructure. Finally, the user was setting up the load balancer and SSL certificates to go live.
reactgrantsethereumblockchainsubgraph
passportxyz/passport
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Passport allows users to prove their identity through a secure, decentralized UI
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 31 commits, 14 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas focused on infrastructure as code and deployment configuration within the repository, primarily using Pulumi. Their commits involved adding and configuring network settings and listeners for the application, particularly for ceramic-testnet. They also updated environment variables, managed ALB settings, and configured health checks and sticky sessions. The user made key changes to deployment configurations across different environments like production and staging, improving the application's operational readiness.
securedecentralizedproveidentitypassport
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