Robert Nicholas
Senior Devops Engineer at Saatva
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Nicholas is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Austin, Texas, with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure. He has led cost-saving and migration initiatives—most notably reducing hosting costs by over $250,000 annually and moving on-premises Kubernetes clusters to AWS—while building reusable Terraform modules and enforcing security controls across IAM and AWS Config. Comfortable across Linux/Unix and Windows environments, he blends configuration management (Ansible, Chef) with hands-on database and scripting knowledge to deliver reliable production systems. A former support specialist turned engineer, he brings strong customer-facing communication and a pragmatic, documentation-driven approach to policies and processes. Given his background in both support and infrastructure, he uniquely balances operational rigor with an empathy for the end-user impact of platform changes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of PhoenixCulinary and Sanitation, Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager, Culinary and Sanitation, Restaurant, Culinary, and Catering Management/Manager at Knox County Career CenterHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at East Knox High School
Github Skills (123)
game-development10
godot10
game-engine10
charts10
mixins10
open-source10
helm9
golang9
minecraft9
forge9
fabric9
bukkit9
docker9
kubernetes9
spigot9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nicholasrobertm/Camp-Nobody
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
nicholasrobertm/gw2-api
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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