Nate Morrison
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNate Morrison is a seasoned systems and security engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and automating on-prem and cloud compute, networking, and storage solutions. He blends hands-on programming in Go, Python, C#, Java and shell with deep Linux/container expertise (Kubernetes, Ceph, Docker) to streamline workflows and drive reliable operations. Nate has led large-scale security projects—remediating 100,000+ vulnerabilities across 15k nodes—and built automation around patching, ticketing, and telemetry to make complex environments manageable. As an active open-source contributor to Syncthing, he has improved backend file-handling and documentation, reflecting both code and comms strengths. Based in Miami, he brings practical network/security engineering (BGP/OSPF, firewalls, NAC) and a penchant for turning messy legacy processes into auditable, automated systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
CertificationsBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at LeTourneau University
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Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
sphinx10
go10
synchronization10
file-handling10
rest-api10
documentation10
p2p10
markdown9
apidoc9
markdown-it9
api9
doc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
syncthing/syncthing
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 20 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the back-end logic and functionality of the Syncthing project. Their work included adding features like filenames to the audit log and introducing an environment variable to skip default folder creation. The commits also involved modifications to file handling and event emission related to local disk changes and enhancements to API endpoints. These changes indicate a focus on improving the software's data handling, user experience, and overall functionality.
synchronizationfile-synchronizationp2pcontinuouspeer-to-peer
syncthing/docs
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Documentation site
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nate's primary contributions revolve around updating and creating documentation for the `syncthing/docs` repository. They have modified existing documentation files like `dev/building.rst`, `dev/events.rst`, and `rest/events-get.rst`, updating content and adding new sections. Moreover, the user created new documentation files, including `events/localchangedetected.rst` and `rest/events-disk-get.rst`, indicating an effort to expand the documentation's coverage of the project's features. These changes suggest a focus on clarifying functionalities and providing comprehensive guides.
specificationsyncthingsphinxdocumentation-site
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