Niko Klanecek
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Mercury
Laramie, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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SeniorNiko Klanecek is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure, currently advancing platform resilience at Mercury. He progressed through multiple senior infrastructure roles at Mercury since 2021, bringing practical expertise in production reliability, automation, and team-level technical leadership. Prior to Mercury, he spent several years as a DevOps and Senior DevOps Engineer at Niteo, focused on empowering small businesses with robust, maintainable systems. Based in Laramie, Wyoming, Niko blends pragmatic engineering with a hacker ethos—aptly summarized on his GitHub as “high tech lowlife”—and maintains a public presence on GitHub for reproducible tooling and infrastructure work. He’s known for steadily elevating operational maturity rather than flashy rewrites, turning complex operational needs into automated, auditable solutions. Niko’s career trajectory shows a consistent pattern of leveling up responsibility and impact within platform engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
python-development9
packaging9
virtualenv9
pip9
oauth8
python8
herokuapp8
pipfile7
vpn7
heroku-deployment6
wireguard6
security6
heroku5
pyramid5
privacy4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nkk0/wednesday
Aug 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
nkk0/nkk0.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:177 pushes in 5 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
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