Nathan Johnstone
.NET Azure Architect at Xebia
The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNathan Johnstone is a .NET Azure Architect with 11 years of professional experience building and migrating mission-critical systems to cloud-native architectures. He has led architecture and CTO roles driving migrations from .NET Framework to .NET Core, introducing Terraform, Kubernetes, Event-driven scaling with KEDA, and observability practices across legacy platforms. A committed Software Craftsmanship advocate, Nathan mentors teams in TDD, DDD, Clean Architecture and pragmatic engineering practices like the Mikado Method to enable safe incremental change. His background spans real-time control systems to large e-commerce platforms, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems thinking and cloud-scale architecture. Based in The Hague, he enjoys elevating teams through hands-on coaching and measurable improvements in reliability, testing, and deployment automation. An engineer who treats his craft like a doctor treats their practice, he continuously sharpens skills outside of work and thrives in mentorship-rich environments.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Southland Boys High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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17answers
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Github Skills (146)
dapper10
terraform10
build-automation10
dotnet10
sql10
azure10
mountebank10
kubernetes10
nuke10
continuous-integration10
azure-resource-manager10
go10
ado-net10
initialize10
object-mapper10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nrjohnstone/ports-adapters-examples
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
Example implementation of a simple book order domain giving various examples of how to initialize adapters within a host
Contributions:138 commits, 12 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 years
initializehostadaptersorder-bookdomain
nrjohnstone/Keda.ExternalScaler.Hangfire
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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