Plamen Nedkov
DevOps Engineer at Block
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPlamen Nedkov is an experienced DevOps engineer with 11 years in operations and automation, currently shaping infrastructure at Block from his Dallas base. He has a strong track record leading automation and DevOps teams at Bright Pattern, Axway, and Tumbleweed, delivering reliable, production-grade systems and deployment pipelines. A hands-on systems engineer, he contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving the Anarchy Linux installer with NVMe/MMC support, RAID/XFS options, and portability fixes—demonstrating deep low-level Linux and installer expertise. Trained originally in automotive engineering, Plamen brings a methodical, systems-oriented approach to infrastructure automation and reliability engineering.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician at Technical University of Sofia
Github Skills (17)
bash10
partitioning10
script10
archlinux10
system-administration10
scripting9
kernel9
shell9
sh9
postinstall8
installers8
automatic8
automated-build8
file-management8
filesystem8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AnarchyLinux/installer
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Anarchy Linux - A simple and intuitive Arch Linux installer. https://www.anarchylinux.org/
Role in this project:
System Administrator & Installer Developer
System Administrator & Installer DeveloperContributions:127 commits, 72 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Plamen primarily contributed to the Anarchy Linux installer, addressing bugs and implementing features related to system configuration during the installation process. They fixed issues with timezone settings by modifying the `ln` command and added support for NVMe and MMC drives within the partitioning script. Furthermore, the user made the installer more portable and implemented improvements in bash completion and added support for software RAID and XFS.
installerlinuxarchlinuxintuitivearch-linux
pnedkov/adi
Sep 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:127 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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