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Phillip Nielsen
Software Engineer, Soccer Guy and cool container cat
Chicago, IL
Phillip Nielsen
Software Engineer, Soccer Guy and cool container cat
Chicago, IL
Currently working on Cloud Infrastructure for Kubernetes and Developer tools, mostly written in Go. Interested in Cloud Computing, Security, Containers, and Continuous Integration and Deployments.
Mercury — Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2024 – Present
Cloud Infrastructure, via Nix, Terraform and ECS
Braze — Senior DevOps Engineer
2021 – 2024
Cloud Operations, K8s Enablement and Developer Tooling
Journera — (Senior) DevOps Engineer
2018 – 2021
Build all the things, from Cloud infrastructure with Terraform, to building build tools in Golang, and maybe even some data engineering with Glue, Redshift and Sagemaker
Capital One — Software Engineer
2016 – 2018
Cloud Engineering and Application Deployment Automation. Develop automated frameworks for building and deploy applications into AWS using Docker, Jenkins and Terraform.
Capital One Digital Lab — SWE Intern
2015 – 2016
Security Researcher and Developer. Built Internal Application for testing Open Source Security and Data Management tools. Also Built a .NET and C# Web Application Development for internal application.
Crowe Horwath — Performance Engineering Intern
2014
Added several new features and fixed numerous bugs on new web application. Performed and analyzed client mandated load testing for high profile client. ASP.NET & C# web application
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS Computer Engineering
2012 – 2016