Nathan Clemons
Team Lead, DevOps at NICE
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Clemons is a DevOps team lead based in Olympia, WA with over two decades in technology and 14 years focused on modern operations, automation, and cloud migrations. They manage a small distributed DevOps team at NICE (formerly Moxie), driving AWS migrations, Chef-based configuration management, and monitoring transitions from Nagios to SolarWinds while maintaining legacy VMware estates. A hands-on engineer who spends most of their day in a terminal, Nathan has contributed to open-source projects like the nagios cookbook and Dreamwidth’s backend, demonstrating practical expertise in configuration, access control, and Perl. Comfortable leading cross-continental collaboration (including a Prague partner team), they prioritize reliable, auditable automation and have a track record of bringing aging systems under centralized DevOps control. Partially disabled and genderqueer, Nathan is a remote-first leader who values stability (prefers local roles in WA and no contract-only offers) and blends people management with deep technical troubleshooting.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at New Testament Christian SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science at Bridgewater State UniversityHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Lexington Christian AcademyAmazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services at A Cloud Guru
Spanish, Scottish Gaelic
Github Skills (15)
nagios10
chef-client10
configuration-management10
chef-solo10
cookbook10
perl10
back-end-development10
webapp9
web-application9
web-development9
regular-expression9
ruby7
yaml5
terraformer3
terraform3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dreamwidth/dreamwidth
Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Dreamwidth's open source repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on implementing and modifying back-end functionality for the Dreamwidth platform. They addressed bug fixes related to user message handling, particularly for suspended users, and implemented features for embedding content from external sites such as Kickstarter, Google Docs, and Instagram. Additionally, the user modified the system's privilege granting mechanism to allow broader support for vanity privileges, indicating experience in access control and system configuration. They worked primarily with Perl, modifying core system files.
perldreamwidth
sous-chefs/nagios
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Development repository for the nagios cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 issue in 21 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the `nagios` cookbook by modifying Chef recipes and templates. Their work focused on correcting configuration issues, specifically related to user authentication and authorization within the Nagios web interface. The changes included updating the search query logic, refining the `htpasswd` generation, and addressing a syntax error, indicating a focus on configuration management and ensuring proper functioning of the Nagios monitoring system. These updates improved the reliability and maintainability of the cookbook.
cookbookvagrantnagioschef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
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