Nicolas Riquelme
DevOps Lead & Core Product at Kuzzle
Montpellier, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Riquelme is a DevOps Lead and Core Product developer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and production-ready deployment tooling from Montpellier, France. He led the development and product ownership of Kuzzle PaaS, delivering one-click application cluster deployments and migrating complex customer infrastructures to Kubernetes across on-prem and major public clouds (OVH, Scaleway, Azure, AWS). Technically hands-on, he contributes to notable open-source projects like meteor-up and Kuzzle—improving HTTPS automation, Docker integration, CI/CD pipelines, and debugging observability for distributed systems. His background spans full-stack Node.js development, mobile and media workflow platforms, and implementing CI, testing, and Kubernetes-based deployments at scale. Known for blending product ownership with low-level operational fixes, he often bridges customer requirements to resilient platform engineering. He combines formal cloud and development engineering training with practical experience deploying IoT-focused PaaS solutions in production.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BTS SIO, Services informatiques aux organisations, BTS SIO, Services informatiques aux organisations at EPSI MontpellierBAC Scientifique, Physique, BAC Scientifique, Physique at Lycée Fréderic Bazille Agropolis
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
deploying10
back-end-development10
dockers10
cicd10
nodejs10
backend10
meteor10
devops10
amazon-elasticsearch9
yaml9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch-api9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kuzzleio/kuzzle
Aug 2020 - Nov 2021
Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 139 reviews, 47 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to the Kuzzle project by adding deprecation warnings to HTTP routes and removing the `js-yaml` dependency in favor of `yaml`. They also made changes related to CI/CD pipelines by adding a `prune --production` step to functional tests and modifying scripts to start Kuzzle in different environments. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to add logging for cluster interfaces and IP address selection for debugging purposes.
persistent-datamqtt-serveradvanced-searchweb-searchstorage
zodern/meteor-up
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Production Quality Meteor Deployment to Anywhere
Role in this project:DevOps & Back-end Engineer
DevOps & Back-end EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on improving the deployment and configuration aspects of the `meteor-up` project. They automated the handling of HTTPS configurations, enabling automatic redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. Furthermore, they resolved several bugs related to environment variable handling, ensuring proper encoding of critical URLs like `MONGO_URL` and `MAIL_URL`. The user also enhanced the Docker integration, including improved Docker version checking and fixes in the build process.
hostingmeteordeploymentmeteor-updeploy
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