Nikoleta Verbeck
Principal Solutions Architect at Psyncopate Technologies, Inc.
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNikoleta Verbeck is a Principal Solutions Architect with 16 years building scalable, real-time data systems for publishing and media companies, now based in Colorado. She combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, Apache Kafka, Spark and Storm with practical DevOps experience—evident from contributions to confluentinc/cp-ansible where she tuned Kafka listener, OAuth and RBAC configurations. Her career spans senior technical and leadership roles at Confluent and Comcast and includes founding CTO and owner roles that reflect entrepreneurial drive. An Apache Flume PMC alum, she brings open-source sensibility to production architectures and API design, having added filtering support to the Apache Traffic Control Java API. Known for bridging engineering and product needs, she excels at turning complex streaming requirements into operational, well-documented solutions.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information System, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information System at DeVry University - Westminster
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Github Skills (30)
api-rest10
confluent10
congestion-control10
api-design10
restful-api10
kafka10
java10
javas10
aac10
runbook10
yaml10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
ansible-galaxy10
rest-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/cp-ansible
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 47 commits, 21 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikoleta's contributions primarily revolve around configuring and modifying Ansible playbooks for the Confluent Platform. They made significant changes to configuration files, particularly for Kafka broker listeners, including those related to OAuth and RBAC. Further contributions involve modifications to the `filter_plugins/filters.py` file, likely influencing how the Ansible playbooks handle properties. The user's work also includes merges, removal of code, and modifications of service configuration files, suggesting a focus on ensuring the smooth operation and configuration of the Confluent Platform within an Ansible environment.
ansibleconfluent-platformconfluentplaybookkafka
apache/trafficcontrol
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikoleta contributed to the Java API for Apache Traffic Control, focusing on adding support for filters in the `getServers` and `getDeliveryServices` methods. Their work involved modifying the `TOSession.java` file to include filtering capabilities and updating the `ResponseFuture.java` file. They also added the Apache License to the Java API files and refactored the packaging structure.
content-delivery-networktrafficcontrolapachecdncontentdelivery
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