Niklas Wik
Cloud Architect at Nokia
Pedersöre, Ostrobothnia, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Wik is a Cloud Architect with over a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native and telecom systems at Nokia, currently building Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC) from the ground up. He combines deep protocol and systems background—from C++/Java MME development to cloud architecture—with hands-on Kubernetes and edge-cloud operational expertise. Niklas contributes to notable open-source projects like Talos Linux, improving networking, boot and deployment features that reflect his focus on production-grade infrastructure. Based in Pedersöre, Finland, he blends telecom-grade reliability with modern open-source tooling to deliver private LTE and edge cloud solutions. A detail that often surprises peers: he pairs low-level systems work (boot, VLANs, NTP) with high-level orchestration and day-to-day cluster operations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MSc, Telecommunication engineering, MSc, Telecommunication engineering at Vaasan yliopisto
English, Swedish, Finnish
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
linux10
go10
cloud-native10
kubernetes-pods10
containerd9
grpc8
dockers7
docker7
musl7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
siderolabs/talos
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 18 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Niklas has contributed significantly to the Talos Linux project, focusing on networking, boot process, and overall system configuration. They implemented features related to VLAN support, including configuration and addressing, demonstrating a strong understanding of network interfaces and configuration. The user also added features for handling extra headers during manifest fetches, and provided features for disabling NTP. These changes indicate a focus on core system functionality and improving the deployment and configuration capabilities of Talos Linux for Kubernetes.
containersmuslcontainerdlinux-distributiongrpc
nokia/gitops-conductor
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
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