Nicolas Couture

Highly self-driven, result oriented experienced IT professional with unparalleled organizational skills, and enterprise intelligence with a proven track record in Linux, security, and operational excellence. Experienced in managing mission-critical systems, automating infrastructure as code, developing and automating solid software, systems, and software delivery solutions.

My diverse background spans healthcare IT, enterprise security (IAM/PAM) banking, and SaaS entrepreneurship, cloud infrastucture engineering, I loves exploring complex systems, troubleshoot issues, assess their functionalities and security.

Strong Technical Experience

• Technical Expertise: Linux expert, passsionate of UNIX-like operating systems, advanced cloud engineer familiar with the leading cloud service providers.

• Operational Excellence: Skilled in organization, infrastructure as code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, system optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Security Focused: Experienced with IAM/PAM solutions, modeled requirements, designed, and implemented identity, access, and privileged access management solutions for Fortune 500 companies, familiar with threat modeling, incident response, network scanning, penetration testing, network traffic monitoring, running and developing custom honeypots.

• Infrastructure Management: Managed complex infrastructures used in healthcare (LIS, PACS, RIS, RID) for clinics and hospitals.

• Entrepreneurship: Independently built and maintained a next-generation BaaS ("Business Assistant as a Service") from 2016, using a unique technical stack using programming languages I learned to develop certain functionalities, therefore demonstrating resilience and reliability, effectively developed a complex cloud-based, solution with autoscaling workloads that functioned- without intervention until December 31, 2024 that is to say, it serviced customers on its own for over 7 years.

• Problem Solver: Strategic thinker adept at navigating complex systems and organizations, and at identifying opportunities.

• Self-Starter: Extremely self-driven experienced IT professional ready to take ownership of projects, taking initiative, working independently, and excels under pressure.

• Cultural Catalyst: I thrive on harnessing digital collaboration to turn promising ideas into full-fledged reality, igniting fresh possibilities in team settings, Rather than wait for perfection, I eagerly share my work at every stage, championing transparency and real-time feedback. My passion for documentation means I’m always capturing insights — often in raw form — ready for anyone to build upon, refine, and ultimately transform into the official record. This flood of notes isn’t just text on a screen; it’s an invitation for others to step in, co-create, and push projects into bolder directions, proving that generosity and shared vision can spark remarkable outcomes.

• Master of Automation: Consistently automated software builds across multiple programming languages, optimized workflows, improved efficiency, and delivered long-lasting solutions using standardized practices rooted in UNIX philosophies.

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