Nathan McGinnis

Chesapeake, VA — me@nathanmcginnis.com

About

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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, Terragrunt, Atmos
  • Bash, Python
  • Ansible, Chef
  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins (CI/CD)
  • Observability
  • Cost Optimization
  • Platform Engineering

Experience

  • Designed and implemented reusable GitHub Actions workflows and custom composite actions, standardizing CI/CD pipelines and ad hoc automation across the organization
  • Implemented ArgoCD to enable GitOps-based continuous delivery into EKS, improving deployment consistency and auditability
  • Evaluated and adopted Terragrunt for Terraform orchestration, migrating all existing state files and AWS resources to reduce code duplication and improve environment management
  • Migrated ingress-nginx to Traefik via Kubernetes Gateway API, integrating cert-manager for fully automated certificate provisioning and renewal
  • Implemented KEDA-based scale-to-zero for non-production environments, reducing idle compute costs