Nathan Rice
Senior Devops Engineer at Nielsen
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Rice is a Senior DevOps Engineer in Los Angeles with over two decades of technology leadership and 12 years focused on modern DevOps, cloud, and infrastructure automation. He has hands-on experience driving HA architectures, monitoring/on-call practices, and migrations to AWS (EC2, S3, VPC VPN), and has codified infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible. Nathan’s background spans enterprise web operations, Exchange and IIS consolidation, and networking (F5, Cisco, SonicWall), reflecting a rare blend of systems, networking, and application-level troubleshooting. He has scaled teams and businesses—from startup CTO responsibilities to managing technology at Nielsen—mentoring senior engineers and enabling knowledge transfer. Notably, he built custom tooling and automation across Windows and mixed Linux/Windows environments, consistently turning operational complexity into repeatable, automated processes.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General, Diploma, General at Ankeny High School
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Github Skills (18)
vbscript9
iis9
touchswipe8
iphone7
ipad7
powershell6
windows-authentication6
windows6
wmic6
jquery-plugin6
ssl6
windows-installer6
exchange-server6
jquery5
letsencrypt4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
natemrice/letsencrypt-powershell
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
This is an initiative to port the letsencrypt functionality to Windows via PowerShell
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 4 months
letsencryptpowershellwindows
csinchok/fcc-comment-site
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 10 months
pythondjangodjango-sitefcccomments
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