Joshua Nelson
DevOps Specialist
Education
- Dean's Honors List (all semesters)
- President of ACM Student Chapter
Experience
- Designed and implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, reducing software delivery time from days to minutes.
- Provisioned scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform (IaC), ensuring consistent and repeatable environments.
- Containerized monolithic applications using Docker and orchestrated deployments via Kubernetes, increasing resource utilization by 30%.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to engineer and deliver core DevOps Specialist solutions with 99.9% uptime.
- Participated in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 25%.
Projects
- Implemented distributed consensus protocol with leader election and fault-tolerant replicated state machine.
- Benchmarked throughput reaching 100,000 tasks/second across a 5-node cluster.