Nate Buel is a Senior Software Engineer based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with six years of experience building secure, production-ready systems across DevOps and application development. Currently on Optum’s Cyber Threat Intelligence team, he blends software engineering with security-focused operational practices to improve detection and response workflows. Prior roles at Securian Financial saw him engineer and support software delivery pipelines, gaining hands-on experience in infrastructure automation and release engineering. Nate’s background includes internships and progressive infrastructure roles that reflect a practical, reliability-first approach to software delivery. Outside of work he sharpens his security instincts by tackling CTF challenges and gaming, a hobby that fuels creative problem solving and keeps him current on attacker techniques.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
A flask web app that will use various ML algorithms to predict weekly UFC fights
Contributions:57 PRs, 129 pushes, 60 branches in 5 months
ufcpythonflaskflask-webmachine-learning
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