About

Hi, I'm Nick Revenko

DevOps and Cloud Engineer, and CTO at Increasio, a Jamstack and SvelteKit development agency. I build fast, type-safe, well-structured software, and I value quality, structure and simplicity above everything else.
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CTO · Increasio 6+ years
Role
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
Experience
6+ years
Based
Netherlands & Germany
Work mode
Remote

Story

A bit about me

Self-motivated, detail-oriented and happiest when a complicated problem ends in a simple solution.

I'm an experienced software developer and engineer, specialising in web development and web engineering. Lately I've been deepening my skills and hands-on experience as a cloud engineer too.

I'm self-motivated, hard-working and creative, and technology is more than a job for me: coding is something I do as a hobby as well as for work.

I'm a very detail-oriented person. I like sophisticated, type-safe, well-structured and simple solutions to complex problems, the kind that take lots of effort, are hard to solve and come with real obstacles in new and ongoing projects.

As part of that process I do software development, software engineering when it comes to building complex custom solutions, and DevOps. I also have an Economics degree, so I know how enterprises work, which helps me connect technical decisions to what a business actually needs.

Today I'm the CTO at Increasio, a Jamstack and SvelteKit development agency, where I lead the technical direction across frontend, backend and DevOps.

What I do

From the first pixel to the last deploy

Software development, software engineering for complex custom solutions, and DevOps, combined in one workflow.

Frontend engineering

Fast, responsive interfaces built with Svelte and SvelteKit, TypeScript and TailwindCSS, plus Gatsby.js, Next.js or Astro when a project calls for them. Jamstack at heart, with SSR, CSR or SPA chosen per project.

  • Svelte
  • SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • TailwindCSS

Backend & CMS

Custom backends and headless CMS setups with Strapi and Appwrite, built so content teams can publish without developer help and frontends get a clean, predictable API.

  • Strapi
  • Appwrite
  • Headless CMS
  • API Design

DevOps & cloud

Repeatable, containerised delivery with Docker and Ubuntu, infrastructure described in Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions.

  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions

Open source

Tools I share with the community: Metawrite for SvelteKit and Appwrite, Svesh for mesh-gradient canvases and OneTemplate, a free Gatsby.js website template.

  • Metawrite
  • Svesh
  • OneTemplate

Principles

Quality, structure and simplicity

These ideals guide my approach to problem solving, and to life in general.

01

Quality

Details matter. I would rather spend the extra time on a component, a type or an edge case than ship something that only just works.

02

Structure

Clear architecture and well-organised code make a project easier to extend, hand over and maintain long after launch.

03

Simplicity

The best answer to a complex problem is usually the simplest one that still does the job: less code, fewer moving parts, fewer surprises.

Right now

What I'm up to

The work, the learning and the open source I'm spending my time on at the moment.

  • CTO at Increasio

    Leading the technical direction across frontend, backend and DevOps.

  • Growing as a cloud engineer

    Building on my DevOps foundations: Docker, Terraform and CI/CD.

  • Learning Golang and Swift Vapor

    Exploring new languages and frameworks for backend development.

  • Open source on GitHub

    Publishing and maintaining Metawrite and Svesh.

  • Superpower

    Extraordinary thinking

  • Education

    Economics degree

  • Locations

    Kharkiv, Ukraine · Hilversum, NL

  • Focus

    Frontend, backend and DevOps

Setup

Workstation & tools

The hardware and software I use every day to design, build and ship.

Workstation

  • Daily driver

    13" MacBook Pro · M1 · 16 GB RAM (2020)

  • Display

    Dell 24" P2422H

  • Before that

    13" MacBook Pro · Intel i5 · 8 GB RAM (2016)

  • And before

    12" MacBook · Intel i5 · 8 GB RAM (2015)

Daily tools

The editors, terminals, browsers and design tools I reach for first.

  • VSCode
  • NeoVim
  • iTerm
  • Docker Desktop
  • Ubuntu
  • macOS
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Figma
  • Xcode

Skills

Technologies I work with

Frontend, backend, DevOps and the product work that connects them.

Frontend

  • Svelte
  • SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • D3.js
  • Next.js
  • Gatsby.js
  • Astro
  • Jamstack
  • Responsive Design
  • Sass
  • TailwindCSS

Backend

  • Strapi
  • Appwrite
  • Headless CMS
  • GraphCMS
  • API Design
  • ExpressJS
  • Golang (learning)
  • Swift Vapor (learning)

DevOps

  • DevOps
  • Cloud Engineering
  • Docker
  • Ubuntu
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions

Product

  • Dashboards
  • Data-Heavy Interfaces
  • Onboarding
  • Charts
  • Empty States
  • Landing Pages
  • Interactive Workflows
  • Custom Backends
  • SSR
  • CSR
  • SPA
  • Data Visualization & Animation

Beyond code

Giving back, and what keeps me curious

Volunteering & community

  • Helped refugees at Amsterdam Centraal

  • Helped refugees at Barcelona Sants

  • Contributing to the open-source community

Interests

Technology, programming and the business side of building products, usually with a good cup of coffee nearby.

  • Technology
  • Programming
  • Web development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Coffee

Online

Find me online

Code on GitHub, updates on X, Facebook, Instagram and Medium, or just send me an email.

contact@koodeau.com

Contact

Let's build something simple and well made

Whether it's a SvelteKit project, a headless CMS setup or a DevOps pipeline that could use some structure, I'd like to hear about it.

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