Jack Nagel
Principal Cloud Engineer at Apryse
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Jack Nagel is a Principal Cloud Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient cloud systems, currently based in Tampa, Florida. He has progressed through technical and leadership roles at Accusoft and now Apryse, driving architecture, delivery, and cloud-native best practices. Jack pairs deep systems knowledge with hands-on engineering, having contributed to widely used open-source projects like Homebrew by improving GitHub integrations, search, and dependency resolution. His dual academic background in computer science and physics underpins a methodical, measurement-driven approach to problem solving and performance optimization. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex infrastructure challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions while mentoring teams to raise engineering standards. An appetite for low-level tooling and legacy platform compatibility shows through his work on experimental forks like tigerbrew, revealing attention to portability and edge-case robustness.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at North Dakota State University
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Github Skills (22)
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ruby10
homebrew10
github-api10
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Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/brew
Sep 2013 - Jan 2018
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1948 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Homebrew package manager's core functionality, focusing on improving its interactions with GitHub and other web services. Their work involved modifying the search functionality, updating APIs, handling rate limits, and optimizing the process of obtaining formula information. These efforts included improvements to URL handling, patch application, and dependency resolution.
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mistydemeo/tigerbrew
Feb 2013 - May 2015
Experimental fork of homebrew for PPC Macs on Tiger
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the `tigerbrew` project by refactoring and improving the codebase related to Xcode and CLT version checks. They also addressed bugs, like broken symlinks and version misdetections, within the Homebrew environment. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and utilized test assertions across multiple formula. These commits demonstrate an understanding of both the core functionality of the package manager and the individual formula it manages.
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