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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Principal Engineer at BRCK
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Designed, deployed, and maintained a customer VoIP service configuration portal and SMS messaging API. Quality assurance: test coverage 82%+, multiple, fully automated, provider-agnostic, seamless deployments per day.
Director of R&D at OmniNet Information Management
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2022
Designed, implemented, and maintained a continuous integration and delivery pipeline for our partner configuration web portal and API. Quality assurance: increased automated test coverage from 0 to ~40%. Deployment frequency increased from quarterly to 3 deployments per day. Reduced deployment failure rate to 1% using a seamless blue-green deployment strategy. Designed, implemented, and maintained an internal infrastructure-as-code configuration management tool for our fleet of Fortinet Fortigates.
Chief Engineer at ASA Information Management
January 1, 2001 - January 1, 2015
E-commerce web development, hosting and operations.

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