Nathan Mehl
Internet Janitor at Oden Technologies
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Mehl is a seasoned site reliability and infrastructure engineer with 14+ years driving uptime and scalability for companies from Google to The Climate Corporation and now Oden Technologies, where he wryly calls himself an "Internet Janitor." He specializes in backend infrastructure, service discovery, and operational stability—evidenced by substantive contributions to airbnb/synapse that improved HAProxy frontends, flexible listener configs, and logging for HTTP-based services. Nathan blends hands-on systems work (from early web days and hospital surgical planning labs) with people leadership as a former SRE manager, making him comfortable both in the trenches and running teams. Based in New York, he has a long track record of refactoring brittle architecture into reliable platforms and shipping practical, auditable solutions. Not obvious at first glance: his career maps the evolution of internet operations from foundational hosting and consulting through modern SRE practices, giving him deep institutional memory about failure modes and fixes.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Temple UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Bard College at Simon's Rock
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Github Skills (7)
configuration-management10
service-discovery10
backend10
haproxy10
back-end-development10
yaml10
ruby9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/synapse
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
A transparent service discovery framework for connecting an SOA
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:10 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the backend infrastructure of the Synapse project, which is a service discovery framework. They refactored the backend and listener configuration, allowing for more flexible service definitions and improving the management of HTTP-based services. Significant contributions include adding support for shared frontends in HAProxy configuration, refactoring code, and improving overall stability and logging, and allowing override of listening address. The user worked on modifying configuration files, and also addressed style and logging issues.
soatransparentservice-discoverydiscovery
TheClimateCorporation/python-dpkg
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Python library for reading Debian package files and comparing version strings
Contributions:10 commits in 5 months
comparingpython-librarypythonpipstrings
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