Nathan Friess
Sr. Software Engineering Manager at Black Duck
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolNathan Friess is a senior software engineering manager with 10+ years of experience leading DevOps, cloud production, and database operations across Google Cloud, AWS, and on-prem environments. He combines deep hands-on skills in full-stack Java, scripting, and systems management with a proven track record of building operational teams that handle alerting, incident response, and day-to-day production support. Having progressed from systems administrator and COO-level responsibilities to managing multiple ops teams, he brings rare cross-functional insight into deployment, monitoring, and developer tooling. Based in Calgary, he leverages an academic foundation (MSc Computer Science) to solve practical reliability and security challenges at scale. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, audit-ready solutions that balance automation with operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of CalgaryCertificate Project Management, Certificate Project Management at Mount Royal University
Github Skills (9)
infinity9
thermostat9
carrier9
latex8
tex7
controller7
ide6
texstudio5
editor4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nfriess/logipi
May 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 11 months
nfriess/carrier_infinity
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Carrier Infinity Thermostat Controller
Contributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 21 commits in 2 years 5 months
controllerthermostat-controllercarrierthermostatinfinity
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