Nathaniel Schweinberg
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Eliassen Group
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Schweinberg is a Senior Fullstack Engineer with 14+ years building and operating cloud-native platforms, infrastructure, and user-facing applications from Raleigh, NC. He combines hands-on expertise across Node.js/TypeScript, Docker/ECS, Terraform and AWS with deep experience in performance optimization and cost reduction—achievements include a 45% ops cost cut and dramatic latency and test-time improvements. Nathaniel has led multi-tenant platform architecture, migrations to well-architected multi-account AWS setups, and production incident RCA while also owning DevOps and security hardening for WordPress platforms. He contributes to notable open-source projects like HashiCorp Terraform docs and Trellis, reflecting a focus on clear documentation and secure infrastruc ture. Known as a thoughtful, learner-oriented leader (StrengthsFinder: Relator, Learner, Intellection), he mentors teams, drives process improvements, and is primed to transition technical depth into engineering management. An unconventional asset is his background in Communication and Media Studies, which informs his aptitude for clear technical writing and cross-team collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies at Florida State University
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Github Skills (34)
wordpress10
terraform10
terraformer10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
devops10
documentation10
xdebug9
markdown9
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infrastructure-as-code9
markdown-it9
fail2ban9
nginx9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
roots/trellis
Aug 2014 - Dec 2018
WordPress LEMP stack with PHP 8.2, Composer, WP-CLI and more
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:34 commits, 32 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel focused on improving the infrastructure and security of the WordPress environment. Their contributions include setting up and configuring fail2ban and ferm for enhanced security, adjusting SSH defaults, and modifying nginx configuration. They also worked on streamlining the Xdebug setup and deployment process with new scripts and configurations.
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hashicorp/terraform
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 91 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel's contributions primarily focused on modifying documentation within the `hashicorp/terraform` repository. Their work involved adding a new page for environment variables and subsequently updating and reformatting existing documentation pages. These changes included adjusting indentation, fixing formatting issues, and making minor refinements to the documentation layout. This indicates a focus on improving the readability and organization of the Terraform documentation.
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