NikolaiĀ Shields
Senior DevOps Engineer at dwavesystems
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RockstarNikolai Shields is a Senior DevOps Engineer with five years of hands-on experience, currently contributing to infrastructure and reliability at D-Wave Systems Inc. in Canada. He specializes in bridging development and operations to deliver resilient, scalable systems for cutting-edge quantum computing products. Known for applying pragmatic automation and CI/CD practices, he focuses on reducing toil while improving deployment velocity and system observability. Though early in his career, he brings a strong operational mindset applied to complex, research-driven environments where reproducibility and reliability matter.
5 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (122)
k8s10
kubelet10
k3d10
kubernetes10
k3s10
flags10
ssh9
tasty9
manjaro9
cli8
vault8
artifacts8
chain8
golang8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nikolaishields/nixos-config
Feb 2022 - Jun 2023
A monorepo for Nixos IAC
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 4 months
monoreponixos-configurationnixosnixos-dotfilesinfrastructure-as-code
nikolaishields/k3s
Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
Lightweight Kubernetes
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 10 months
k8skuberneteskubelet
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