beaknit
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Mccourtney is a Principal Distributed Systems Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, reactive systems and infrastructure at scale, currently driving distributed systems work at NVIDIA from Washington, D.C. He brings deep AWS expertise and a polyglot engineering background—shipping production systems in Python, Clojure, Rust, and TypeScript—alongside operational experience dating back to datacenter leadership and early SaaS founding. Nathan helped shape core AWS capabilities (including authoring CloudFormation-Guard) and has led engineering and product-aligned teams as VP of Engineering at Fugue, combining hands-on development with organizational strategy. Known for preferring “real things that do real work,” he blends low-level systems thinking with pragmatic delivery, improving region reliability and automating cloud governance in prior roles. Outside of product teams, he mentors engineers, sets measurable goals, and brings a philosopher’s BA to methodical problem framing and trade-off analysis.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
sublime-text-plugin10
docker7
compliance6
governance6
security6
k8s5
yaml5
mastodon5
terraform5
dsl5
aws-cdk5
package-control4
activitypub4
federation3
cloudflare3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
beaknit/cform
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
SublimeText plugin for CloudFormation
Contributions:10 releases, 29 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 5 months
sublime-text-plugin
beaknit/arj
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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