Nathan Sutherland
Principal Network Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Sutherland is a Principal Network Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience designing, operating, and automating large-scale enterprise and service provider networks. He has progressed from hands-on operations and 24/7 incident response at BlackBerry to principal-level network architecture and cloud networking at Oracle, bringing deep protocol expertise across BGP, OSPF, MPLS and security-focused design. Nathan blends practical operations knowledge—running networks for tens of thousands of users and leading mergers, migrations and datacenter consolidations—with automation skills in Ansible and Python to accelerate repeatable, auditable deployments. He frequently serves as the technical escalation point for critical infrastructure and has led teams and interim management efforts, demonstrating both leadership and execution under pressure. Recently he has expanded into large-scale cloud networking, applying carrier-grade practices to cloud-native environments, and maintains a pragmatic cyber-security mindset throughout his work.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CTY Computer Systems Technology, CTY Computer Systems Technology at Fanshawe CollegeSaunders Secondary SchoolProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nsutherland78/subnetcalc
Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
nsutherland78/nsutherland78.github.io
Apr 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:92 PRs, 93 pushes, 49 branches in 5 years 4 months
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