About

Nash Luffman is an experienced Advisory DevOps Engineer at IBM with a passion for software development. He currently works on a platform team that enables the Watson application teams, which involves the development and management of over 40 Kubernetes clusters and surrounding platform components. Nash has a holistic view of the stack and can navigate and design applications with every component considered. Nash has written extensive internal tooling from web scrapers to API's to Slack bots. He has developed applications that exposed an API for internal teams to consume that served Akamai endpoints internally and created a Slack interface to their Kubernetes cluster & Jenkins instances. Nash is constantly developing new automation that allows the platform to grow at a rapid rate. He is responsible for the automation of over 150 hostnames and 50 certificates and has deployed several GitOps workflows, storing their Infrastructure-as-Code for CDN, DNS, and certificates. Nash has built several CI/CD pipelines that include testing, Docker image building, and deployment onto Kubernetes clusters. He is always looking for the next best way to enable developers and customers to produce their best work. Nash has worked as an Associate DevOps Engineer at IBM, where he developed a serverless Slack bot written in NodeJS to serve API. He mentored an intern in the development of a ChatOps bot in NodeJS to interface with Kubernetes clusters from Slack. Nash was responsible for CDN (Akamai) configuration, backups, and automation for 500+ hostnames. He also developed and maintained 40+ Kubernetes clusters of varying sizes, from 20 nodes to 600 nodes. Before joining IBM, Nash worked as an RF Characterization Intern at Qorvo, Inc. where he developed and maintained in-house MVVM-patterned software to generate data reports for characterization engineers. He improved dynamic SQL queries performance by 7-times in a C# code-base. Nash wrote stored procedures and other database administration tasks for development and production servers. He utilized teams GitLab to work on an issue-driven version control cycle. Nash holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Nash's tech stack includes DevOps, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Jenkins, Software Engineer, Terraform, CI/CD, test, Docker, Web, infra, and SQL. Nash has 4.45 years of relevant experience.