About me
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a DevOps engineer and Technical Leader with more than a decades' worth of industry experience. I have worked with clients across the globe to support them in delivering and maintaining software projects. I am available for contract work.
Best practices
I have experience implementing the following principles and procedures:
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Project management
- Communication with stakeholders
- Understanding business needs
- Planning and implementing technical solutions
- Coaching and leading developer teams
- Overseeing software quality
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Agile development
- Implementing continuous feedback and learning loops
- Test driven development
- Code reviews
- Trunk based development
- Organising meetings
- Planning sprints
- Kanban boards
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Automation
- Configuration as code
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
- Static code analysis
- Test coverage measurements
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Logging
- Log aggregation
- Visualization
- Alerting through various channels
Technologies
Here are some of the technologies I have recently work with:
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Automation
- SaltStack
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Docker
- compose
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Jenkins
- Declarative pipelines
- Shared Groovy libraries
- Build agents
- Travis CI
- vSphere
- Ansible
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Agile
- Jira
- Redmine
- GitLab
- Linux
- Configuring services
- Core tools and scripting
- Debian, Ubuntu
- Basic networking and routing
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Python
- Django
- Celery
- Wagtail
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Testing
- unittest, unittest.mock
- selenium
- Sphinx documentation
- Django
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Databases
- PostgreSQL
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Elasticsearch
- Kibana
- Beats
- Neo4j
- MariaDB/MySQL
- API design
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Malware
- Static file and network analysis
- Maltego iTDS and custom transforms
- Yara
- Titaniumcore
- Virustotal
- FireEye
- Lastline
- Bitcoin and Blockchain
Here are some of the technologies I have used professionally in the past:
- Red Hat
- CentOS
- Flask
- JavaScript (ECMAScript 5)
- CSS 3
- SASS
- valid HTML5
- jQuery, Bootstrap
- Semantic markup
- Microdata
- OpenGraph
- Accelerated Mobile Pages
- Mobile first and responsive layouts
- Touch interfaces
- Ajax crawling
- PHP
- WordPress
- Typo3
- Perl
- Scrapy
- sqlite
- Email templates
- Mailchimp