Nathan McGinnis

Chesapeake, VA — me@nathanmcginnis.com

About

AWS DevOps Badge

I'm an AWS Certified DevOps Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience, specializing in scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure built with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. I've architected and evolved internal platforms that empower developers, standardize delivery, and turn infrastructure into a product teams can trust.

Core Competencies

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes, Helm
  • Terraform, Atmos
  • Python
  • Ansible, Chef
  • CI/CD
  • Observability
  • Cost Optimization
  • Platform Engineering

Experience

  • Engineered reusable Terraform modules for global AWS infrastructure deployments
  • Migrated K8s clusters to EKS to streamline control plane management
  • Executed annual Disaster Recovery procedures to meet SOC 2 audit requirements and validate infrastructure resilience
  • Reduced AWS costs by $30K/year by implementing a ScaleToZero solution