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 AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Education California State University, Northridge Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology (2019) Open Source Contributions tldr-pages 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, and pulumi. See all my contributions here. Interests Technology Programming/Coding, DevOps/Cloud/Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Privacy Hobbies Electric Guitar Videogames Games Elden Ring Red Dead Redemption 2 Stardew Valley Factorio Helldivers 2 Old School RuneScape Shows Better Call Saul Breaking Bad The Mandalorian The Eric Andre Show The Boys Succession Invincible BoJack Horseman Silicon Valley The Boondocks The Bear Smiling Friends Movies Saving Private Ryan Interstellar Whiplash Mad Max: Fury Road Music I mainly listen to metal. My Bandcamp collection is public if you’re curious. My Links GitHub LinkedIn RSS Feed Onlyfans Get in Touch You can get in touch with me on LinkedIn or by sending an email to nelson@.