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Nathan DuffSenior Cloud Engineer & Platform Architect

I architect resilient cloud platforms that scale. With 10+ years of experience in Azure, Kubernetes, and DevOps, I help organizations build self-service infrastructure that empowers teams and drives measurable business outcomes.

Remote / Metro Detroit, MI10+ Years ExperienceAzure Solutions Architect Expert
$3.2M+
Annual Cloud Savings
FinOps + policy automation
99.95%
Platform Uptime
60+ product teams served
5+
Years at OneStream
Cloud → Senior Engineer
100%
Deployment Success
Zero-downtime releases

Experience

2024 - Present Current

Senior Cloud Engineer I

OneStream Software

  • Lead architecture and delivery of resilient automation across cloud platform portfolio, serving 60+ product teams with 99.95% uptime
  • Architected FinOps automation driving $3.2M+ annual cloud savings through policy-based governance and resource optimization
  • Champion observability-first culture with golden signals instrumentation, SLOs, and proactive alerting
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, office hours, and hands-on enablement
2021 - 2024

Cloud Developer

OneStream Software

  • Architected secure, multi-tenant tooling for provisioning, lifecycle management, and incident response
  • Led modernization of container orchestration stack, enabling zero-downtime rollouts
  • Partnered with compliance teams for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, automating evidence collection
2020 - 2021

Cloud Systems Engineer

OneStream Software

  • Implemented Azure governance patterns including policy, update management, and centralized logging
  • Built and refined runbooks for environment rollout, maintenance, and automated health checks
  • Designed infrastructure-as-code patterns adopted across the Cloud Engineering organization
2019 - 2020

DevOps Cloud Engineer

MercuryWorks

  • Consulted with SMB and enterprise clients on Azure modernization and automation initiatives
  • Automated Azure Pipelines builds, releases, and infrastructure changes for multi-team delivery
2015 - 2019

Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer

General Motors

  • Achieved 100% deployment success rate through CI/CD automation with Azure DevOps and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
  • Engineered automated deployment patterns for SharePoint and .NET web workloads

Technical Expertise

Cloud & Platform

Azure (Expert)AKSAzure SQLAPIMContainer AppsFunctionsLanding Zones

Infrastructure & DevOps

KubernetesDockerBicepTerraformAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsArgoCDGitOps

Development

GoC#/.NETTypeScriptVue.jsPowerShellPythonREST APIs

Data & Observability

SQL ServerPostgreSQLRedisAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsOpenTelemetry

Certifications

Azure Administrator Associate certification
Microsoft

Azure Administrator Associate

M365 Teamwork Admin Associate certification
Microsoft

M365 Teamwork Admin Associate

MCSA Web Applications 2019 certification
Microsoft

MCSA Web Applications 2019

Education

Michigan State University

B.A. Communication, Minor in Information Technology

East Lansing, MI • 2012 - 2015

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