Nathan Toups
Founder & Principal Consultant at Functionally Imperative
Livingston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Toups is a founder and principal consultant with 12 years of hands-on experience building developer platforms, SRE practice, and cloud architecture for startups and scaleups. He founded rojoroboto in 2010 and has consulted with 100+ companies, blending practical production experience as a former CTO and staff platform engineer to make the right path easy and the wrong one hard. Nathan specializes in Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD optimization, Team Topologies-driven org design, and now extends those patterns to enterprise-wide AI enablement and governance. He pairs deep multi-cloud and compliance know-how (SOC 2, HIPAA/FDA patterns) with rapid prototyping—having shipped security-only Cosmos ICS work and passkey-based session signing prototypes—and emphasizes starting small, proving value, then scaling. Based in Livingston, Texas, he also co-hosts the Book Overflow podcast and runs a newsletter advocating creative, “elegantly lazy” problem solving, signaling a blend of technical rigor and human-centered leadership.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA Theatre/Theater, Bachelor of Arts - BA Theatre/Theater at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (129)
switch10
proxy10
ipfs10
cosmos10
interpreter10
smart-contracts10
concurrency10
infura10
rotate10
golang10
lambda10
continuous-integration10
aws-lambda10
ethereum-contract10
caching10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
n2p5/n.2p5.xyz
May 2018 - Nov 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
nomasters/nomasters.io
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
repo for https://nomasters.io
Contributions:104 commits, 19 PRs, 94 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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