About

Nathan Gaut is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over fifteen years of hands-on experience in technology. He is a positive individual with superb communication and interpersonal skills, making him effective in managing several tasks and meeting deadlines. Nathan has strong problem-solving and analytical skills, which he leverages to iteratively improve the operability, observability, reliability, scalability, and performance of systems to reduce operational overhead, reduce risks, and simplify the ecosystems in which they operate. Currently, Nathan works at Kohl's, where he is responsible for driving operational excellence by enabling balanced product teams and other partner teams to up-level the health of their services in production, improve reliability, and empowering those teams to self-serve & run their services. He advances strong partnerships and maintains continuous collaboration to achieve this goal. Nathan's educational background includes an Associate of Arts and Sciences degree in Mathematics and Computer Software Development from Minneapolis Community and Technical College, a Full Stack Web Development degree from Actualize Coding Bootcamp & Apprenticeship, and a Bootcamp Prep Live degree from Fullstack Academy. He also holds a Network and System Administration/Administrator degree from Minneapolis Community and Technical College, a Web Page, Digital/Multimedia, and Information Resources Design degree from Hennepin Technical College, and a Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies degree from North Hennepin Community College. Nathan's tech stack includes SRE, and he has 0.36 years of relevant experience. He is a dedicated and skilled engineer who is always looking for ways to improve systems and processes to make them more reliable and efficient.