Nate F
Technology Director, DevOps at Torch
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNate F is a seasoned technology director with 16 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, infrastructure, and mobile apps for high-growth startups. Currently leading DevOps at Torch, he has progressed from senior engineer to engineering lead and now directs platform reliability, CI/CD, and cloud architecture. His background spans AWS, Kubernetes, performance/load testing, and end-to-end API and mobile development—work that often required designing caching layers, multi-region deployments, and automation for repeatable releases. Nate pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for failure modes and process improvement, having built initial clusters, load-testing rigs, and deployment pipelines at multiple companies. Based in Buffalo, he brings a maker’s mindset—3D printing, CNC, drones, and woodworking—that informs a practical, iterative approach to systems design. Colleagues rely on him for troubleshooting thorny outages as well as mentoring teams through scaling challenges.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Kenmore West High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (147)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
graph10
garden10
iot10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
privacy10
zenbot10
raspberry-pi10
database-migration9
terraform9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
natefanaro/natefanaro
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
stefanhayden/twitteroauth
Jun 2010 - Feb 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 9 months
twitteroauthfile-basedcachingsendingplanning
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