Nicolas Smith
DevOps Engineer - Contractor at Beneva
Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNicolas Smith is a DevOps engineer and contractor with eight years of focused experience modernizing infrastructure through Linux, automation, CI/CD, Python, and Kubernetes. He has delivered production-grade container platforms on Red Hat OpenShift and Amazon EKS, authored Kubernetes operators, and implemented GitOps pipelines, OPA policies, and service meshes to improve security and developer self-service. Nicolas combines a deep systems-administration background dating back to the mid-2000s with recent hands-on platform engineering at Loto-Québec and Beneva, plus long-running independent consulting engagements. He often builds custom tooling—Ansible collections, Python utilities, and CI integrations—that bridge gaps left by off-the-shelf solutions. Based in Quebec, he pairs formal training in software development and computer science with a pragmatic, automation-first approach to reduce toil and speed delivery.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ACS Network administration, ACS Network administration at Cégep de RosemontAdvanced Certificate Software Development, Advanced Certificate Software Development at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
gslb9
kubernetes-operator8
k8s7
libreoffice-calc6
cloud-native6
battery6
duration6
linux6
bash6
django6
digital-signature6
kubernetes6
user-interface6
dialog6
zenity6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nicsmith/k8gb
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
golangetcdkubernetes-global-balancerk8skubernetes
nicsmith/INF5190
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Cours de programmation Web avancée
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
djangocoursphpprogrammation
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