Phillip Nielsen
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Mercury
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhillip Nielsen is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and automation for reliable cloud operations. Currently at Mercury after senior DevOps roles at Braze and Journera, he combines hands-on infrastructure work with a strong emphasis on developer user experience and repeatable deployment pipelines. His background includes cloud engineering and application deployment automation at Capital One, where he worked extensively with Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform. Known for "making computers do things they don't want to do," Phillip balances pragmatic engineering with curiosity-driven problem solving and maintains a portfolio (phillipnielsen.me) showcasing systems he builds and runs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
Github Skills (72)
travis-ci9
amazon-redshift9
autoscaling9
pagerduty8
atlantis8
helm8
golang8
automation8
terraform8
datadog8
hcl8
devops8
sre8
go8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
philnielsen/trisongulate
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
take three songs and recommend a playlist
Contributions:31 PRs, 45 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 8 months
playlistsongsspotifyrecommend
philnielsen/python-docker-fun
May 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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