Summary
Nathan Meister is a practical full-stack engineer and systems integrator with eight years of experience building automation, monitoring, and billing integrations for service providers. He combines strong Python scripting with SQL and sysadmin skills across Linux and Windows to stitch together Nagios, Platypus billing, ManageEngine ticketing and related tooling into reliable operational workflows. Comfortable from datacenter networking (Cisco, Juniper, Ciena) to web development and SEO-driven CMS work, he’s equally at home writing backend integrations and crafting customer-facing sites. As owner of The Anvil Bear he also applies technical precision to creative work, reflecting a blend of analytical troubleshooting and design sensibility. Notably, he led a ground-up redesign of monitoring automation that reduced manual onboarding of devices and produced actionable reports for accounting and NOC dashboards.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Network and System Administration, Associate's Degree, Network and System Administration at Madison Area Technical College
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago