Nathan Harper
Principal Engineer - Cloud Development at Graphcore
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Harper is a Principal Engineer specializing in cloud development and HPC with over a decade of experience designing and automating infrastructure for enterprise and research environments. At Graphcore he builds strategies and tooling to integrate IPUs into smart infrastructure using OpenStack, Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes, translating cutting-edge hardware into repeatable, production-ready platforms. His background spans IBM systems and networking through to leading HPC and private cloud operations at CFMS, giving him a pragmatic cross-domain view of performance, reliability and operability. Nathan combines hands-on automation and IaC expertise with a research-aware approach to systems design, and is drawn to projects that bridge large-scale compute, containerisation and orchestration. Based in Bristol, he is known for turning complex infrastructure challenges into maintainable, documented solutions that accelerate adoption of emerging compute technologies.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Mechanical Engineering, MEng Mechanical Engineering at The University of SheffieldRoundwood Park School
Github Skills (19)
api7
vsphere6
opendev5
ansible5
vmware5
docker5
inventory-management4
golang4
cri-o4
terraform2
infrastructure-management2
terraform-module2
infrastructure2
aws2
go2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CFMS/utilityscripts
Apr 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 4 months
CFMS/cfms-rtd
May 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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