Nathaniel Cook
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Coralogix
Mapleton, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Cook is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 12 years of experience building high-performance back-end systems and leading engineering teams across observability and blockchain research companies. Currently at Coralogix, he brings production-grade expertise from prior leadership and hands-on roles at InfluxData—where he contributed to core open-source projects like InfluxDB and Kapacitor, improving ingestion, query performance, and alerting under stress. He blends deep systems-level Go development with operational experience from his DevOps background at Qualtrics, enabling reliable data pipelines and resilient services. Nathaniel pairs a Master’s in Computer Science from UIUC with a physics BS, giving him a quantitative approach to complex distributed systems problems. Known for pragmatic refactors and performance-focused enhancements, he often surfaces non-obvious bottlenecks in time-series processing that materially improve stability. Colleagues rely on him for clear technical leadership that balances shipping features with long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (14)
performance-tuning10
go10
influxdb10
api-design9
apidoc9
api9
query-optimization9
datastructures-algorithms8
debug8
algorithms8
debugging8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/kapacitor
Sep 2015 - Jan 2020
Open source framework for processing, monitoring, and alerting on time series data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 1109 commits, 940 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel's primary contribution appears to be focused on the back-end development of the kapacitor project, as demonstrated by code changes related to the `evalnode` and alert handling. They implemented features, fixed bugs, and refactored code in the Go programming language within the context of a time series data processing engine. The contributions included changes to metrics tracking and improvements in the API.
kapacitorseries-dataalertingtime-seriesmetrics
influxdata/influxdb
Jun 2015 - Nov 2022
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 426 commits, 224 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel appears to be a back-end developer working on the InfluxDB datastore. Their contributions focus on enhancing the v2 client by adding methods to handle batches of points, addressing kapacitor performance issues under stress, and adding functionality to the influxql package. The changes indicate a strong focus on improving data ingestion and query performance.
real-time-analyticsscalablereactanalyticsevents
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