Nathan Mccourtney
Principal Distributed Systems Engineer at NVIDIA
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolNathan 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.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at University of MarylandPedro Sauer BJJ
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Github Skills (26)
sublime-text10
duplicates10
guard9
docker8
governance8
directions8
configurations7
security7
compliance6
validate6
yaml6
terraform6
json6
aws-cdk6
dsl6
Programming languages (4)
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
duplicatescloudformationsublime-textsublime-text-3
beaknit/arj
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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