Summary
Nathan Prado is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 18 years of experience building resilient, secure, and automated cloud platforms from Portland, Oregon. He designs infrastructure-as-code and self-healing systems—favoring Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines—to enable frequent, compliant production deployments at scale. Nathan has driven reliability and security initiatives across enterprise environments at Nike, Consumer Cellular, Health Fidelity, and Varonis, integrating intrusion detection, vulnerability management, and HITRUST-focused guardrails. He blends hands-on tooling and platform work (EKS, Azure, AWS) with release engineering and developer self-service to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. Colleagues know him for treating applications like living organisms that adapt and defend themselves, and for rapidly learning new languages and frameworks to solve practical operational problems.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at University of Puget Sound