Nate Kurt
DevOps Engineer at Rakuten
Troy, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNate Kurt is a DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving platform reliability at Rakuten from Troy, Michigan. A Michigan State Computer Science graduate and former SpartaHack co-director, he brings strong operational rigor and a knack for scaling observability—having automated Dynatrace deployments across 20K+ hosts and built one-click Dynatrace cluster provisioning with Terraform and AWS. Nate has a track record of cost optimization and containerization, including Dockerizing apps to run on EKS and saving over $15K/month. He combines hands-on scripting (Python, Bash) and configuration automation (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet) with practical monitoring expertise to eliminate black-box systems for data science and enterprise teams. His background as a GitHub Campus Expert and early experience managing thousands of endpoints at Quicken Loans reflect an ability to blend developer best practices with large-scale operational needs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that reduces toil and accelerates delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Michigan State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
campus10
twitch8
api8
stress8
stress-testing8
browser8
websocket8
lambda8
testing8
javascript7
aws7
load-testing7
otel7
serverless7
opentelemetry6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nathankurt/k8s-cert
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:76 commits, 59 pushes in 9 months
nathankurt/Practice-Interview-Questions
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Just a bunch of practice interview questions that i'll work on.
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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