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Curriculum Vitae

Nicolas Wainschenker

Nicolas Wainschenker​

SRE & DevOps Engineer | Cloud Native Architect | Automation Enthusiast

About Me​

DevOps Engineer passionate about automation, cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD, and building production-grade homelabs. Always seeking to optimize, secure, and scale systems through elegant Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and Kubernetes practices.

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Skills​

  • DevOps: Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana
  • CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker, Harbor
  • Cloud Native: containerd, Flannel, Traefik, Istio
  • Infrastructure: Proxmox, Cloud-Init, AWS Route53, Dynamic DNS management
  • Automation: Bash scripting, Python for automation
  • Security: TLS certificates (cert-manager, Let's Encrypt), secrets management

Tools​

  • Kubernetes
  • Proxmox VE
  • GitLab CE
  • ArgoCD
  • Harbor Registry
  • Terraform & Terragrunt
  • Prometheus, Loki, Grafana stack
  • Traefik, Istio
  • AWS Route53
  • Docusaurus

Experience​

  • Kubernights Homelab Project (Founder & Architect)
    • Designed and deployed a full Kubernetes cluster on Proxmox virtualization.
    • Automated dynamic DNS, VM lifecycle, Kubernetes cluster creation with GitOps.
    • Integrated observability stacks and private container registries.
    • Built CI/CD pipelines using GitLab Runners and ArgoCD.

Homelab Projects​

  • Homelab Kubernetes Cluster: Full production-grade cluster on reused hardware.
  • Dynamic DNS Automation: Scripted public IP monitoring and AWS Route53 DNS updates.
  • Self-hosted DevOps Platform: GitLab CE, Harbor, ArgoCD stack running internally.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform modules + Terragrunt orchestration for full reproducibility.
  • Homelab Journey Wiki: This very site, documenting the process and lessons learned.