Nick Alteen

Image Credit:  Platane/snk

Interesting Projects

Below are some interesting repositories and projects I've been contributing to :man_technologist:

Curious about building your own GitHub Actions?

• actions/typescript-action
• actions/container-action
• actions/container-prebuilt-action
• actions/container-toolkit-action
• actions/javascript-action

Curious about testing your own GitHub Actions?

• github/local-action

IssueOps is the process of interacting with GitHub Issues and Pull Requests to invoke commands. For example, approving requests to access important systems.

• issue-ops/docs
• issue-ops/labeler
• issue-ops/parser
• issue-ops/releaser
• issue-ops/semver
• issue-ops/validator

Curious about protecting endangered species using AI?

• WildTrack.org

Other interesting repos:

• ncalteen/branch-enforcement

About Me

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import datetime


class Nick:

    def __init__(self):
        self.first_name = "Nick"
        self.last_name = "Alteen"
        self.pronouns = "he/him"
        self.email = "ncalteen@gmail.com"
        self.jobs = [
            {
                "company": "GitHub",
                "organization": "Partner and Expert Services",
                "team": "Expert Services Delivery",
                "role": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
                "start_date": datetime.date(year=2023, month=1, day=10),
                "end_date": None,
            },
            {
                "company": "Google",
                "organization": "Consumer Payments and Next Billion Users",
                "team": "Google Pay and Google Wallet",
                "role": "Developer Relations Engineer",
                "start_date": datetime.date(year=2022, month=5, day=30),
                "end_date": datetime.date(year=2023, month=1, day=6),
            },
            {
                "company": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
                "organization": "AWS Training & Certification",
                "team": "Dedicated Cloud Training",
                "role": "SDM, Lab Development & Engineering",
                "start_date": datetime.date(year=2020, month=4, day=1),
                "end_date": datetime.date(year=2022, month=5, day=30),
            },
            {
                "company": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
                "organization": "AWS Training & Certification",
                "team": "Dedicated Cloud Training",
                "role": "SDM, Lab Development & Engineering",
                "start_date": datetime.date(year=2018, month=1, day=1),
                "end_date": datetime.date(year=2020, month=4, day=1),
            },
            {
                "company": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
                "organization": "AWS Support",
                "team": "Deployment",
                "role": "Cloud Support Engineer II",
                "start_date": datetime.date(year=2016, month=9, day=6),
                "end_date": datetime.date(year=2020, month=4, day=1),
            }
        ]

    def hello_world(self):
        print("I'm Nick! I work at GitHub :)")
        print("I like to build things that get people interested in the cloud.")

    def collaborate(self, interested: bool):
        if interested:
            print("I love collaboration!")
            print("I have some personal projects I'd love to get feedback on.")
            print("Feel free to check them out :)")
            print("If you have projects you're passionate about, let me know!")
            print("I'd love help if I can.")

    def contact_me(self):
        print(f"Feel free to send me a message at {self.email}")

me = Nick()
me.hello_world()

Toolbox

I have some level of knowledge between "comfortable educating experienced developers" and "this is bad and I should feel bad" for each of the following.

Process	Platform	Programming
CI/CD	AWS	Bash
Configuration Management	Chef	C#
DevOps	GCP	JavaScript
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)	RedHat	Python
Serverless	Unity	Ruby
Source Control	Windows	TypeScript