Nathaniel Eliot
Strategic Advisor
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathaniel Eliot is a Strategic Advisor and seasoned SRE/Platform Engineer with 15 years building the infrastructure teams and platforms other engineers depend on, from large multi-cloud Kubernetes fleets to developer pipelines. He’s led cross-cloud upgrades and incident recoveries at scale—coordinating multi-cluster Vault, Istio, and Kubernetes rollouts and driving a ~5,000-worker-hour customer data recovery effort—while reducing alert fatigue through SLO-driven observability and incident tooling. Comfortable in languages from Go and Rust to Python and Ruby, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership: rebuilding startup architectures, guiding enterprise deployment policy, and doubling a client’s digital revenue through product and advertising strategy. An active contributor to classic DevOps projects (notably Berkshelf and Chef cookbooks) and an early adopter of CNCF tooling, he brings uncommon breadth across CI/CD, GitOps, service mesh, and cost-conscious capacity planning. Based in Austin, he thrives advising organizations that want to turn enterprise-class infrastructure into a competitive asset.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
git10
cookbook10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
go10
chef-solo10
automations10
paas10
routers9
router9
dockers9
cicd9
route-config9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
flynn/flynn
Dec 2014 - May 2017
[UNMAINTAINED] A next generation open source platform as a service (PaaS)
Role in this project:
DevOps & Backend Engineer
DevOps & Backend EngineerContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 386 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Flynn PaaS. Their work includes modifications to the slugbuilder, adding functionality to support building applications as root users, and integrating submodules. They also added metadata commands to the CLI and enhanced the release management process by adding the `release update` command. Furthermore, they made changes related to the router, specifically focusing on supporting multiple HTTP/HTTPS ports.
next-generationpaasdockeras-a-serviceplatform-as-a-service
berkshelf/berkshelf
Nov 2012 - Sep 2013
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel focused on improving the configuration and stability of the Berkshelf project, a Chef cookbook manager. Their contributions include addressing SSL verification issues, enhancing git repository handling to improve clone efficiency and reliability, and refining the build process. The user also made changes to the configuration of the project to make it more robust and easier to use. Furthermore, they updated the build process by simplifying the `mv` override with the use of `cp_r` and `rm_rf` in the file utils to resolve several bugs.
command-line-toolcookbooktest-kitchenrecipechef
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