Build the organization
Shape teams, decision rights, manager systems, and engineering priorities around the outcomes the platform must deliver.
- Org design
- Manager development
- Strategy to execution
Senior engineering leader · SRE · Cloud platforms
Reliability is an operating model.
I lead the teams behind critical cloud platforms. I align engineering, SRE, and operations so they can move faster, recover sooner, and own production with clarity.
Best fit: senior engineering leadership · platform engineering · SRE · cloud operations
CurrentlyManager, ROSA HCP Platform EngineeringRed Hat · Raleigh, North Carolina
Field-tested expertise
Turn engineering complexity into dependable execution.
Clear, practical playbooks for leaders who need teams, platforms, and production operations to perform together—especially when the stakes are high.
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Engineering leadership
How organization design, decision rights, and management systems shape platform outcomes.
↗02Site reliability engineering
A leadership operating model for production ownership, incidents, learning, and sustainable on-call.
↗03Cloud platform engineering
How platform teams connect product thinking, operability, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and reliable delivery.
↗04Incident management
How prepared command, decisive escalation, and accountable follow-through reduce the cost of failure.
↗05Reliability transformation
How leaders turn reliability from reactive work into a durable operating capability at scale.
↗Leadership scope
The work between the architecture and the organization.
The hardest production problems rarely belong to one service. They sit between teams, incentives, handoffs, and decisions.
I build the operating system around the platform: accountable teams, usable signals, durable incident learning, and a clear path from executive intent to engineering action.
Run production
Create clear ownership across on-call, incident command, service objectives, risk, and post-incident follow-through.
- SRE
- Incident management
- Reliability governance
Transform the platform
Modernize cloud and infrastructure operations without separating delivery speed from reliability, cost, or operational reality.
- Cloud platforms
- OpenShift & Kubernetes
- Operations at scale
Selected outcomes
Proof, not a list of responsibilities.
Publicly shareable examples of reliability transformation, organizational scale, and operational leadership.
01Recovery transformed
<10 minMade major incidents materially shorter.
Helped move major-outage recovery from more than two hours to under ten minutes by improving detection, command, ownership, and repeatable response.
02Organizational scope
25+ / $10M+Led a global platform organization.
Directed distributed storage engineering and operations across a 25+ person organization, security and compliance responsibilities, and a $10M+ annual portfolio.
03Cloud service readiness
Launch → operateConnected launch readiness to production ownership.
Led global SRE and incident-management work for a public cloud storage service, carrying reliability from launch preparation into sustained service operations.
Current work · Red Hat
Leading platform engineering for ROSA HCP.
My focus is the leadership layer around a managed Kubernetes platform: clear production ownership, sustainable on-call, stronger service feedback, and less organizational friction for engineers doing consequential work.
OpenShift & ROSAPlatform engineeringProduction ownershipReliability systems
Scope is intentionally described at a public leadership level. No confidential customer, architecture, roadmap, or incident details are included.
Leadership record
Cloud, platform, SRE, and operations at scale.
A career spent close to production across managed cloud services, storage platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and incident leadership.
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Leadership in practice
Make the decision clear. Make ownership visible.
That is how teams move faster without losing control—especially during incidents, platform transitions, and consequential change.
Discuss a leadership mandateIdeas in the open
I write to make the operating model concrete.
AIOpsSRE.com and four field-focused books turn hard-won patterns from reliability, incident response, communication, and AI operations into practical tools for leaders and practitioners.
Owned publication · Founder & publisher
AIOpsSRE.com
Reliability, incident response, observability, platform engineering, and the operational realities of AI in production.
↗Leadership reputation
Technical credibility. Calm judgment. Trust.
Nate is collaborative, straightforward, and builds trust with his team and partners. He is technically strong, quickly grasps complex subject matter, and can cut through the noise.
Nate finds the balance that delivers the best overall results. In both good times and tough ones, his leadership and even-keel style come through and deliver.
For recruiters and engineering executives
Need a leader who can connect platform strategy to production reality?
I’m open to the right senior engineering leadership mandate, especially where reliability, cloud platforms, and organizational change must move together.