I’m Nelson. I’m a Software Engineer with professional experience using technologies like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services. I started this blog to share things I learn and to occasionally rant.
Experience
Cloud Support Engineer II @ Pulumi (Aug 2024 - Present)
Software Engineer @ Robinhood (Jan - Nov 2023)
Software Engineer IV @ Edmunds (2020 - 2022)
Junior DevOps Engineer @ Vitu (2019 - 2020)
Software Engineer @ CSU Northridge (2018 - 2019)
Skills
Programming Languages: Ruby, Python, Bash, Go
Web Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap CSS, Bulma CSS
Databases: MySQL, SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Terraform, Serverless, CloudFormation, CI/CD (Google Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker)
Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform
Operating Systems: macOS, Linux (Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Amazon Linux, Alpine Linux)
Other: Command Line, Git, Agile, Scrum, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Certifications
Education
California State University, Northridge
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology (2019)
Open Source Contributions
- Maintainer and contributor to the tldr-pages project. tldr-pages is a simplified and community-driven “cheat sheet” for command line tools.
- Contributed practical examples for CLI tools such as
rails,terraform,minikube,kubectl,hugo, andpulumi. See all my contributions here.
Interests
Technology
Programming/Coding, DevOps/Cloud/Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Privacy
Hobbies
- Electric Guitar
- Videogames
Games
Shows
- Better Call Saul
- Breaking Bad
- The Mandalorian
- The Eric Andre Show
- The Boys
- Succession
- Invincible
- BoJack Horseman
- Silicon Valley
- The Boondocks
- The Bear
Movies
Music
I mainly listen to metal. My Bandcamp is public if you’re curious. I also have a Last.fm page where you can see my most listened to songs and artists: