Nathaniel Sherry
Cloud System Engineer at Western University
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNathaniel Sherry is a Cloud System Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating research-grade infrastructure and scientific software in higher education and consortium environments. He combines hands-on programming (Java, Python, Bash, Ruby, C) with deep Linux and cloud operations expertise, having led OpenStack and Ceph deployments and integrated GPU accelerators for research workloads. At Western University he develops and packages cross-platform X-ray fluorescence analysis tools and plugins, while earlier roles at SOSCIP focused on cloud tooling, CI/CD adoption, and large-scale migrations such as Python 2 to 3. Comfortable across the stack, Nathaniel blends system administration, software development, and hardware procurement to deliver reproducible, production-ready platforms for scientists. Based in Ontario, he pairs a Waterloo Computer Science background with a pragmatic focus on enabling research through robust, automatable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (12)
windows10
chemistry10
linux10
macos10
source-code-analysis10
physics10
python10
java10
logging9
grafana8
prometheus8
monitoring7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nsherry4/Libraries
Jan 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:158 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
nsherry4/Peakaboo
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
XRF Analysis Software
Contributions:7 releases, 1806 commits, 17 PRs in 8 years
physicsxrfchemistrypythonwindows
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