Nissar Chababy
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Summary
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RockstarNissar Chababy is a self-taught infrastructure and backend engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in DevOps culture, Linux-first operations, and reliable automation. Based in Saarbrücken, he combines hands-on skills in Shell, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes with a power-user mastery of Arch Linux and a growing fluency in Debian for professional environments. An active open-source founder and contributor, he has improved core functionality and test coverage in well-known projects like StevenBlack/hosts and contributed dump-handling fixes to Meilisearch, demonstrating attention to data correctness and system reliability. He enjoys breaking and repairing systems to learn their internals, applying that curiosity to design pragmatic tooling and deployment improvements. Colleagues know him as an "Infra, Dev & Ops Ninja" who bridges developer workflows and operational robustness while championing collaborative open-source solutions.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (31)
unit-testing10
git10
strings10
python10
text-manipulation10
databases10
adblock10
cicd10
rust10
devops10
database10
file-management9
bash9
beautifulsoup9
api9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
The Ultimate Unified Hosts file for protecting your network, computer, smartphones and Wi-Fi devices against millions of bad web sites. Protect your children and family from gaining access to bad web sites and protect your devices and pc from being infected with Malware or Ransomware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:219 commits, 10 PRs, 228 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nissar's primary contribution focuses on establishing and improving the repository structure. This includes creating the initial file structure and making modifications to the deployment and commit processes. Additionally, the user implemented the whitelist system, modifying the core script. They have also fixed permission issues with the automated build and deployment.
protectdrugscomputer-networkransomwarepetya
StevenBlack/hosts
Feb 2018 - Jul 2021
🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 90 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nissar significantly contributed to the codebase by implementing and reviewing critical changes to the `updateHostsFile.py` script, which is central to the repository's function. Their work involved refactoring the `domain_to_idna()` function to handle encoding issues, along with the introduction of comprehensive unit tests for this and other functions. They also addressed and fixed a series of test failures, demonstrating a strong focus on ensuring code quality and reliability of the project's core functionality.
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