Nathan Pawelek
Senior Principal Cloud And Solutions Engineer at Invesco US
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Pawelek is a Senior Principal Cloud and Solutions Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in Linux and cloud platforms, including six years focused on OpenStack and several years advising AWS enterprise customers on cloud adoption, cost optimization, and container strategies. He blends deep operational expertise—having driven observability and automation at Rackspace and led critical escalations and mentoring at AWS—with a track record of reducing operational noise and accelerating deployment lifecycles. Based in Houston, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic focus on customer outcomes and financial stewardship, consistently delivering measurable savings and reliability improvements. Outside the office he’s a relentless learner and fitness enthusiast whose attention to small optimizations (from deployment pipelines to daily routines) drives both team performance and personal discipline.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
Github Skills (110)
python10
wireguard10
docker-container10
k8s10
monitoring10
vpn10
vpn-client10
charts10
rackspace10
helm10
ansible10
golang10
kubernetes10
longhorn10
proxy-server10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
npawelek/home-ops
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:181 PRs, 367 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
npawelek/k8s-gitops
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes with GitOps!
Contributions:713 commits, 2829 PRs, 4977 pushes in 2 years 4 months
gitopskubernetesfluxselfhostedrenovate
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