I have been building and running web applications for 25 years. I have equal experience as a Linux system administrator and operator. I've worked with and led teams of various sizes, from just me to 8 engineers. I do code review, mentoring, and training. I emphasize quality assurance practices, including automated testing, thorough documentation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration, delivery, and deployments. I do notifications and alerting; I am on-call.

Nathaniel Welch

I have been building and running web applications for 25 years. I have equal experience as a Linux system administrator and operator. I've worked with and led teams of various sizes, from just me to 8 engineers. I do code review, mentoring, and training. I emphasize quality assurance practices, including automated testing, thorough documentation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration, delivery, and deployments. I do notifications and alerting; I am on-call.

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I have been building and running web applications for 25 years.
I have equal experience as a Linux system administrator and operator.
I’ve worked with and led teams of various sizes, from just me to 8 engineers. I do code review, mentoring, and training.
I emphasize quality assurance practices, including automated testing, thorough documentation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration, delivery, and deployments.
I do notifications and alerting; I am on-call.

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Work Experience

Principal Engineer at BRCK
December 31, 2025 - August 13, 2025
Designed, deployed, and maintained a customer VoIP service configuration portal and SMS messaging API. Ensured quality assurance with a test coverage above 82%. Managed multiple fully automated, provider-agnostic, seamless deployments per day, contributing to robust and reliable service delivery.
Director of R&D at OmniNet
December 31, 2022 - August 13, 2025
Designed, implemented, and maintained a continuous integration and delivery pipeline for partner configuration web portal and API. Increased automated test coverage from 0% to approximately 40%. Increased deployment frequency from quarterly to three deployments per week and reduced deployment failure rates to 1% using seamless blue-green deployment strategies. Developed and maintained internal infrastructure-as-code configuration management tool for a fleet of Fortinet Fortigates.
Chief Engineer at ASAI Information Management
December 31, 2015 - August 13, 2025
Managed e-commerce web development, hosting, and operations. Focused on delivering reliable and scalable digital services to support business functions.
Director of R&D at OmniNet
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2022
Designed, implemented, and maintained a continuous integration and delivery pipeline for the partner configuration web portal and API. Quality assurance increased automated test coverage from 0% to ~40%, deployment frequency rose from quarterly to three deployments per week, and deployment failure rate was reduced to 1% using a seamless blue-green deployment strategy.
Chief Engineer at ASA Information Management
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2015
E-commerce web development, hosting and operations.

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Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Retail, Professional Services

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