Nicolas Kowenski
DevSecOps Team Leader - High Performance Computing Engineer at ETH Zürich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNicolas Kowenski is a DevSecOps team leader and High Performance Computing engineer with nine years of infrastructure and systems experience, currently driving a cloud-native transformation of ETH Zurich’s cross-datacenter HPC clusters. He blends deep networking and security roots from a decade at Telefónica with hands-on Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Python/Go operator development, and federated monitoring to modernize large-scale scientific compute environments. An active open-source maintainer and CTF enthusiast, he pairs practical automation (Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI) with security tooling like Falco and Velero to deliver resilient, observable platforms. He holds advanced studies in Cybersecurity from ETH Zurich and business/agile training from Oxford, and outside work pursues kite surfing, climbing and ski touring—reflecting a taste for high-adrenaline problem solving that mirrors his approach to infrastructure challenges.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Compute Science - Bachelor degree, IT, Compute Science - Bachelor degree, IT at UADEBusiness Administration and Management, General, Agile Project Management, Business Administration and Management, General, Agile Project Management at University of OxfordMaster of advances studies., Cybersecurity, Master of advances studies., Cybersecurity at ETH ZürichEscuela Tecnica ORT
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
k8s10
operator10
api10
prometheus10
controller10
terraform10
backup10
disaster-recovery10
virtualization10
kubernetes10
persistent-volumes10
graph10
grafana10
charts10
kubernetes-operator10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zakkg3/charts
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
k8skubernetes
zakkg3/ClusterSecret
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Kubernetes ClusterSecret operator.
Contributions:7 releases, 23 reviews, 136 commits in 2 years 1 month
kubernetes-operatork8skubernetesoperator
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