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Nyle Garcia

Manager, Cloud Engineering at OCC. DevOps. Platform engineering. Chicago, IL.

I run Kafka and Kubernetes for the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization through its first cloud migration. Off the clock I reverse-engineer hardware that vendors forgot about on Linux, and put it on a Stream Deck.

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Projects

  • gamehailPython

    Voice assistant for games on Linux. Hold a key, ask out loud, get a spoken answer and an overlay. Per-game MCP modules, Star Citizen wired up, OpenDeck plugin included.

  • OpenWaveRust

    Elgato Wave XLR, XLR Dock, and Wave:3 controls native to Linux: GTK4, libadwaita, and a PipeWire mixing matrix. Reverse-engineered, no vendor software.

  • openwave-opendeckPython

    OpenDeck plugin for OpenWave: mix, microphone, and source volumes plus microphone-group switching from a Stream Deck.

  • gpu-screen-recorder-opendeckPython

    GPU Screen Recorder on a Stream Deck: replay buffer, recording, and stream state drawn live on the keys, with one physical key that saves the buffer.

  • cztimer-opendeckJavaScript

    Star Citizen contested-zone timers for OpenDeck: executive hangar cycle and lights, keycard printers, vault door.

  • countdown-opendeckJavaScript

    Countdown timer plugin for OpenDeck, the Stream Deck software for Linux.

  • Crunchy+TypeScript

    Crunchyroll, but better: sub and dub modes, a modern UI, AniList sync and import. Chrome and Firefox MV3 extension.

  • ai-skillsJavaScript

    A skill and plugin library for coding agents: lifecycle workflows, design, infrastructure, and review playbooks shared between Claude Code and Gemini CLI.

Systems

  • MSGKafka
  • ORCKubernetes
  • CLDAWS
  • IACTerraform
  • CFGAnsible
  • CIJenkins
  • CIGitHub Actions
  • OBSELK stack
  • LNGPython
  • LNGShell
  • OSLinux
  • EVTKEDA

Flight log

  • 2025 to now OCC Manager, Cloud Engineering

    Leading the cloud engineering team. Technical owner for Kafka across a multi-region, event-driven AWS platform on Kubernetes; Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub pipelines; the Renaissance cloud migration program.

  • 2023 to 2025 OCC Associate Principal, then Lead Associate Principal, Cloud Engineering

    Designed and built the multi-region Kafka architecture and its CI/CD, keeping a SIFMU's security and resilience bar through the migration.

  • 2021 to 2023 XSELL Technologies DevOps Engineer, then DevOps Engineering Lead

    Moved manually deployed EC2 to Kubernetes with event-based autoscaling on KEDA; Terraform and Ansible provisioning; Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Snowflake pipelines; ELK observability; FinTech and healthcare compliance reviews.

  • 2016 to 2021 Wynndalco Enterprises IT Technician to Lead DevOps Engineer and Manager

    Managed a team of 70 field technicians; built the scheduling and routing tools they ran on, with Flask API servers in Docker; imaging, automation, and network upgrades before that.

  • 2016 to now Freelance DevOps for Twitch streamers

    Channel bots, RTMP and encoding servers, game servers, backups, and the monitoring to keep real-time services up for over 300 users.

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