Nicolas Owens
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Owens is a systems-focused software engineer with 17 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native and low-level infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, he spent formative years at CoreOS contributing to Container Linux build and release tooling, automating multi-architecture image builds and integrating CI for reliable deployments. His open-source work spans distributed storage (fixing races and strengthening metadata in Torus), Prometheus node_exporter enhancements, and deep system integration in coreos-overlay and fleet, demonstrating expertise across storage, init systems, and observability. Nicolas combines backend and DevOps skills—writing build scripts, ebuilds, and kernel-adjacent integrations—with a pragmatic attention to concurrency and failure modes. Colleagues describe him as drawn to designing resilient systems rather than flashy front-ends, and he often surfaces stability improvements that quietly prevent production incidents.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Sacramento City CollegeSacramento New Technology High
English
Github Skills (52)
git10
container10
docker10
system-programming10
patch10
linux10
bash10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
containerization10
dockers10
openbsd10
cicd10
kernel10
system10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
coreos/coreos-overlay
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Custom ebuilds for Container Linux
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:616 commits, 496 PRs, 243 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the system, focusing on low-level system integration. They addressed various bugs and security vulnerabilities by importing patches. Key contributions include syncing with upstream stable ebuilds, coreos-ifying ebuild, and retargeting ebuild.
linux
coreos/scripts
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Build and maintenance scripts for Container Linux
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits, 38 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the build and configuration of the containerized operating system. Their work involved modifying build scripts to support various architectures like arm64 and specific hardware configurations such as UEFI. The commits focused on integrating necessary modules for boot processes (e.g., grub), generating image files, and configuring the system for different virtualization environments like QEMU. The changes included updating build tools and integrating Jenkins jobs to automate and streamline the build and deployment processes.
linux
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