Nik Kirstein
Cloud Ops Engineer Software Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Kirstein is a Cloud Ops and Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently building secure, reliable cloud systems at Booz Allen Hamilton. He has a strong focus on cybersecurity, privacy, and environmental impact, pairing that interest with practical experience deploying and operating observability stacks like the Elastic Stack. Prior roles at the Electronic Proving Ground had him leading instrumentation and data teams, designing test plans, and conducting safety and risk assessments for GPS system tests. He brings a proven ability to translate customer needs into technical briefs and data products, and to automate testing workflows with Python. A University of Arizona graduate with a background in information science and Russian, he combines technical breadth—from front-end work to cloud ops—with disciplined documentation and compliance-minded testing. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication across technical and nontechnical stakeholders and for making security and safety considerations tangible in operational systems.
9 years of coding experience
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NikKirstein/ShowcaseProjects
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
NikKirstein/Portfolio
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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