Nicolas Lopez
Developer Support Engineer at EngFlow
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Lopez is a Developer Support Engineer with nine years of experience building tools and improving developer workflows, currently based in Bogotá. He spent nearly a decade at Google focused on developer tools and build systems, driving hermetic builds, test infrastructure improvements, and dependency management across large open-source projects. His open-source contributions touch prominent repositories like gRPC, Knative Eventing, and Bazel's rules_docker/rules_k8s, where he improved build reliability, CI, and container tooling. Nicolas pairs a PhD-level research background in software engineering with hands-on DevOps and backend work, enabling him to tackle both design-level and operational complexities. Colleagues rely on him to simplify intricate build-and-deploy pipelines and to port legacy tests and configurations to modern, hermetic toolchains.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los AndesUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (22)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
docker10
docker-image10
testing10
bash10
build-system10
kubectl10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
bazel10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/rules_docker
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Rules for building and handling Docker images with Bazel
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 133 commits, 365 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the repository by addressing issues with the build process and dependencies. They fixed a runfiles issue in a test and updated dependencies across various language environments, including NodeJS, Java, Python, and Go, by updating digests. Furthermore, the user removed deprecated Bazel features, made improvements to the build process, and added tests. The user also implemented new container tests and migrated existing ones.
docker-imagebazelgooglestarlarkdocker
bazelbuild/rules_k8s
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
This repository contains rules for interacting with Kubernetes configurations / clusters.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build & Release EngineerContributions:1 release, 30 commits, 115 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas focused on improving the build and deployment process for Kubernetes configurations within the Bazel build system. Their contributions involved enabling the hermetic building of `kubectl` as part of the toolchain setup, which included building `kubectl` from source. They implemented improvements to the testing infrastructure by adding features to the e2e tests. They also updated dependencies for `rules_docker`, `rules_proto`, and other components to keep the project current.
kubernetes-deploymentdocker-imagebazelclustersdocker
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