Ashley Nelson
Principal Software Engineer at Fastly
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Nelson is a Principal Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with 11 years of experience building highly available systems and automating infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. Currently leading platform and reliability efforts at Fastly, she progressed from senior to staff and now principal roles, demonstrating a track record of scaling services in fast-moving edge and networking contexts. Her background spans SRE and DevOps leadership at MariaDB and General Mills, blending hands-on engineering with infrastructure automation and operational maturity. She is passionate about open source and staying current with emerging technologies, often applying pragmatic tooling choices rather than chasing buzz. Collected experience from SAP ABAP and mobile/.NET internships through to principal-level architecture gives her a rare view across application, infrastructure, and operational lifecycles. Known for turning complex availability requirements into reliable, automated solutions, she favors simple, auditable systems that empower teams to move faster.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (98)
messaging10
github10
cloud-computing10
python10
hat10
message-queue10
automation10
gitea10
rest-api10
homeserver10
ssh10
network-configuration10
matrix10
django10
ansible-automation-platform10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fantashley/culvers-slack-bot
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
Bot that can scrape the Flavor of the Day from a given Culver's location page and post it to Slack
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 6 months
scrapebotdaypost-itslack
fantashley/dendrite
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
Dendrite is an experimental second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go (still in development, not recommended for use)
Contributions:15 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 4 months
golanghomeserverdendritematrixsecond
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