Nigel Kersten
Advisor at Overmind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNigel Kersten is a seasoned technical leader and advisor with 18 years of experience building and scaling B2B startups and enterprise-facing engineering organisations, having served as CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Product and Chief Product Officer. He combines hands-on engineering (notably early Puppet contributions and macOS installation fixes in the puppetlabs/puppet repo) with product strategy, open-source community leadership and executive-level technical sales. A recognised expert and early pioneer in DevOps and Platform Engineering, Nigel co-founded and co-authored the influential State of DevOps Report for over a decade, shaping industry best practices cited by Gartner and Forrester. He has deep experience aligning R&D with customer success for highly regulated accounts and has spoken at major venues including WWDC and DevOps Enterprise Summit. Based in London, he blends philosophical training with pragmatic systems thinking to optimise engineering flow and deliver measurable business outcomes.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
puppeteer10
puppet10
ruby10
scripting9
macos9
command-line-interface8
devops8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/puppet
Aug 2009 - Nov 2011
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:29 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily contributed to the Puppet codebase by addressing bugs and implementing new features. These contributions involved modifying the installation process, specifically for macOS, to correctly set bindir and sbindir paths. The user also enhanced the installation script by adding options for specifying installation directories and config file management. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the mailman provider within the Puppet framework, changing the identifier used for mail list management.
frameworkautomationjavaautomation-frameworkserver-automation
nigelkersten/nigelkersten.github.io
Mar 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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