About Me

Nelson Figueroa

I’m a Software Engineer with broad experience working with technologies like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, and Amazon Web Services. I started this blog for fun and to share my knowledge. I currently work in a Kubernetes role.

Experience

Software Engineer @ Robinhood (2023 - Present)

Software Engineer IV @ Edmunds (2020 - 2022)

Junior DevOps Engineer @ Vitu (2019 - 2020)

Software Engineering Intern @ Dollar Shave Club (Summer 2019)

Software Engineer @ CSU Northridge (2018 - 2019)

Skills

Programming/Scripting: Ruby, Python, Bash, Go

Web Technologies: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap CSS, Bulma CSS

Databases: MySQL, SQLite 3, PostgreSQL

Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Serverless, CloudFormation, CI/CD (Google Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker)

Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform

Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Kali), macOS, Windows 10

Other: Command Line, Agile/Scrum, Jira, Git, RSpec

Education

California State University, Northridge

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology (2019)

Open-Source Contributions

github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

Simplified and community-driven “cheat sheet” for command line tools.

Contributed practical examples for the following commands:

rails generate
rails destroy
rails db
rails routes
terraform validate
terraform fmt
minikube stop
minikube delete
pmset displaysleepnow
kubectl get
kubectl describe
kubectl logs
kubectl rollout
kubectl delete
kubectl edit

Interests

Technology: Programming, DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Hobbies: Videogames, Electric Guitar

Games:

Shows:

Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
The Mandalorian
The Eric Andre Show
The Boys
Succession
Invincible
BoJack Horseman
Silicon Valley
The Boondocks

Music: I mainly listen to Death Metal. My Bandcamp collection is public if you’re curious. Or check out some of my current favorite songs (all YouTube links):

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