Nicola Beirer

Cisco Meraki · San Francisco, CA

• › Reduced deployment time of main application by 62%, from 80 to 30 minutes, by designing and implementing migration to in-house deployment system, evangelizing adoption across 100+ microservices (Ruby, Python, Scala) through stakeholder communication and documentation
• › Enabled true Continuous Delivery by automating deployments to run hourly once CI pipelines passed, increasing deployment frequency from manual on-demand releases to 24+ automated deployments daily
• › Reduced high severity incidents by 40% by designing and implementing canary deployment system with automated End-to-End test execution, monitoring, and rollback capabilities across 1000+ production servers
• › Developed vulnerability scanning system using ElasticSearch and Artifactory Xray to scan 100+ production container images daily, automatically creating JIRA tickets with timelines to comply with PCI and FEDRAMP
• › Implemented commit message enforcement system across Gitlab and Gerrit platforms, building compliance dashboards to track adoption metrics for PCI, SOC2, and FEDRAMP audits
• › Built automated flaky test detection system that reruns failed CI builds and identifies non-deterministic tests, improving reliability for test suite of 80,000+ tests growing at 5,000 tests per month
• › Migrated single Gitlab server to High Availability deployment using Terraform and Ansible, automating AWS resource creation (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, VPC, IAM) with phased approach to minimize downtime
• › Debugged and resolved system issues across 1000+ production servers by analyzing logs, monitoring machine performance, and applying Linux debugging techniques during rotating on-call shifts
• › Mentored intern in designing CLI tool to track commit CI/CD status across multiple platforms, reducing team debugging time by 60% and intern received full time offer in networking sector

Summit at Snoqualmie · Snoqualime Pass, WA

• › 87.5 NPS score

Cisco Meraki · San Francisco, CA

• › Enabled 2000+ developers to connect to in-office lab resources during COVID shutdown by designing and implementing Site-to-Site VPN using Meraki routers
• › Automated VLAN configuration on lab machines using Ruby scripts and Ansible roles, enabling connectivity to distributed lab resources

Apptio Inc. (now IBM) · Bellevue, WA

• › Transitioned API from Amazon ECS to in-house Kubernetes platform, enabling autoscaling, observability via Grafana and Prometheus, and reducing deployment time by 2x
• › Automated creation and deployment of AWS resources (EC2/ECS) using Python and boto3, improving deployment consistency

Associated Recreation Council · Seattle, WA

• › 0 physical fights

YMCA of Greater Seattle · Sammamish, WA

• › Taught 100s of students how to swim ranging from preschoolers to high school students and adults

University of Washington · Seattle, WA

Specialized in mathematics and quantitative finance, with coursework in algorithms, data structures, statistics, financial modeling, and machine learning.

The Linux Foundation