Nathan Gay
Site Reliability Engineer at Slingshot Aerospace
Woodstock, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Gay is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient systems across defense, consumer hardware, and cloud SaaS. His background includes embedded software for nuclear submarine combat weapon platforms and radar tracking, which informs a discipline for safety-critical design and low-level performance tuning. He has progressed through hands-on SRE and DevOps leadership roles at Wahoo Fitness and CrashPlan and now focuses on reliability at Slingshot Aerospace. Nathan combines systems-thinking with practical automation to scale observability, incident response, and CI/CD for production fleets. Based in Woodstock, Georgia, he pairs a Georgia Tech Computer Engineering education with a track record of translating mission-critical requirements into auditable, production-ready infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (18)
consul-kv8
updater7
backend6
golang3
data-management3
web-application2
saas1
custom-domain1
amplify1
github-enterprise1
deploying1
serverless1
hosting1
consul1
jamstack1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CrashPlanGroup/axiomatic
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Automates Consul KV data management.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
automatesconsuldata-managementconsul-kvgolang
WahooFitness/nuts
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
:chestnut: Releases/downloads server with auto-updater and GitHub as a backend
Contributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 6 months
updaterauto-updaterbackend
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