Nikolai Emil Damm

Developer Experience Engineer building tools that make Kubernetes development effortless. Open-source advocate and cloud-native enthusiast.

What I Do

Platform Engineering

Building and maintaining Kubernetes platforms with GitOps, Flux, Talos Linux, and CNCF technologies.

Developer Tooling

Creating tools like KSail that simplify Kubernetes development and operations.

Open Source

Contributing to the open-source ecosystem with reusable workflows, actions, and templates.

Knowledge Sharing

Writing about software development, cloud-native technologies, and modern engineering practices.

🛥️ KSail A Go CLI for provisioning GitOps-enabled Kubernetes clusters. One binary, multiple distributions.

☸️ Platform GitOps-based Kubernetes platform running on Talos Linux with Flux, Cilium, and Traefik.

Building an AI Assistant for Kubernetes How I built KSail's interactive Copilot-powered chat assistant using Go and Bubbletea TUI.

Kubernetes Clusters on Hetzner with KSail A step-by-step guide to creating Talos Linux clusters on Hetzner Cloud.

AI-Powered GitHub Issues How I use Copilot with Claude Opus to create well-structured, impactful issues.

From Shell Scripts to .NET to Go The journey of building KSail through three major rewrites.