Nolan Heimlich
Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNolan Heimlich is a Kubernetes Platform Engineer with five years of hands-on DevOps and security operations experience, currently building cloud-native platform capabilities at Ford Motor Company. He combines a strong academic background in cybersecurity with practical expertise in SIEM engineering, automation, and infrastructure administration from roles at MNX Solutions and Novacoast. Nolan has led automation projects—such as PowerBI reporting for SOC metrics—and contributed to SIEM maturity through custom parsing, alerting, and framework-aligned detection (NIST, MITRE, HITRUST). Comfortable across on-prem and cloud environments, he pairs AD/endpoint and network administration experience with Kubernetes platform work, bringing an operator’s mindset to developer-facing infrastructure. Known for integrity, rapid learning, and resilience, he seeks opportunities that push technical boundaries and deliver measurable security and reliability improvements.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A.S. in CyberSecurity, A.S. in Computer Networking, Certificate of Networking Specialist, A.S. in CyberSecurity, A.S. in Computer Networking, Certificate of Networking Specialist at Jackson CollegeInformation Assurance & Cyber Defense, CyberSecurity, Information Assurance & Cyber Defense, CyberSecurity at Eastern Michigan University
Github Skills (47)
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svg9
fog9
serverless9
consolidation8
docker8
cloud-native8
docker-registry8
kernel8
security8
networking8
monitoring7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nheimlich/homelab
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Personal Kubernetes Cluster
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 months
homelabkubernetestalos
nheimlich/nheimlich
May 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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