Nathaniel Waisbrot
Site Reliability Engineer at Kontakt.io
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Waisbrot is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient, production-grade systems from startups to Google and Fitbit. He blends hands-on software engineering (Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir) with incident leadership, automation of release processes, and teaching engineering teams to design for observability and reliability. At Google he automated a monolith break-out for Fitbit teams, and at Fitbit he ran incident response, post-incident reviews, and internal tooling that improved developer and production workflows. He’s led server-side teams ingesting high-volume biometric data and introduced containerization and microservices in prior roles, showing a knack for modernizing legacy stacks. Based in Cambridge, MA, he prefers recruiter outreach that’s specific and transparent about role and compensation—an indicator of his pragmatic, results-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Vassar CollegeMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github contributions (5)
waisbrot/resume
Dec 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
waisbrot/docker-wait
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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