Nathan Brophy
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Brophy is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platform engineering with eight years of experience building resilient systems using Kubernetes, OpenShift, and operator patterns. Now leading platform efforts at Alkami Technology, he blends hands-on Go development with SRE and CI/CD expertise to streamline developer tooling and orchestration. His background includes multi-role progression across Branch and IBM, evidencing a talent for stepping between software engineering and operations to deliver production-ready infrastructure. Based in Saint Paul, he leverages strong academic roots from the University of Minnesota while favoring pragmatic automation over theoretical complexity. Colleagues describe him as a systems thinker who turns platform challenges into repeatable, maintainable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
Github Skills (35)
ibm-cloud10
lifecycle10
container9
integrations9
container-image9
docker9
openshift9
k8s9
podman8
operator8
grpc8
kubernetes-operator8
oci-image8
kubernetes8
catalog8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nathanbrophy/Portfolio-PoC-Demo
May 2023 - Mar 2024
This is a sample PoC / Demo DevOps repository that shows IaC, Kubernetes, and REST server deployment examples.
Contributions:20 PRs, 67 pushes, 19 branches in 9 months
nathanbrophy/spotify_player
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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