Nathan Wheeler
Principal Network Automation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Wheeler is a Principal Network Automation Engineer in Seattle with 11–15 years of hands-on experience building automated, cloud-ready network and systems infrastructure. He has driven large-scale automation at F5 and Zoom, implementing NetBox-based DCIM/CMDBs, Ansible/Terraform workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to manage hundreds of devices and on-demand BIG-IP deployments. Deep Linux/Unix and networking knowledge (BGP/TCP/IP, VLANs, VPNs, F5) pairs with practical coding in Python, Bash and web tooling to turn operational complexity into repeatable infrastructure-as-code. An active contributor to NetBox Ansible modules, he’s improved inventory flexibility and modernized dependencies—showing a preference for pragmatic refactors that reduce vendor lock-in. Known for mixing systems, network, and cloud skills, he excels at enabling app teams to self-serve DNS and network services while keeping infrastructure auditable and reproducible.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
python10
netbox10
ansible10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
tsql9
xaml9
apidoc9
ip9
textbox9
sql9
automation9
api9
sql-server9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/ansible_modules
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
NetBox modules for Ansible using Ansible Collections
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the Ansible modules for NetBox, enhancing the functionality of the inventory plugin. Their work included adding options to use virtual chassis names and DNS names, improving the flexibility of how devices are represented in Ansible inventories. They also refactored the codebase by removing a dependency and incorporating the standard `ipaddress` library. Additional changes included incorporating full location functionality and fixes to support newer versions of Ansible and related libraries.
ansibleansible-collectionsnetbox
nahun/pfweb
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 50 commits, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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