Nate Swenson

GoodLeap / Remote

• Co-developing AI agents on the Anthropic Claude platform that automate incident triage, debugging, and CI/CD failure analysis across GitHub. Cut mean time to resolution by 3× in early rollout.
• Building an agent that auto-tags legacy AWS resources across every account in the org, reconciling infrastructure created by Terraform, SST, CloudFormation, and manual console work into one accurate inventory.
• Built a repository creation agent that applies company-wide naming, structure, permission, and CI/CD standards to every new repo at creation time, so compliance is enforced up front instead of audited after the fact.
• Led AWS infrastructure engineering for two major product launches, designing the Terraform modules and GitHub Actions pipelines they shipped on, then set the org-wide CI/CD and IaC standards other teams now build against.
• Built the Datadog observability dashboards and alerting the on-call rotation runs on today, standardizing how production incidents are detected and escalated.

Fannie Mae

• Owned GitLab platform infrastructure end to end at a federally chartered mortgage finance company: Terraform-managed deployment, version upgrades, multi-region high availability, runner autoscaling, and DR/backup automation, all under financial-services security and compliance constraints.
• Designed and shipped shared CI/CD templates and golden pipelines that engineering teams adopted as their delivery baseline, replacing per-team pipeline drift with one vetted, reusable path.
• Wired SAST, DAST, secret scanning, and policy-as-code directly into the platform’s pipelines so security and audit requirements shipped with the code instead of after it, then onboarded and mentored the teams adopting it.

Discover Financial Services

• Architected an automated IAM policy assignment system spanning AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Jenkins, and Ansible Tower, managing access policies for roughly 300 S3 buckets and giving Discover a self-service path that replaced manual provisioning.
• Designed and published 20 reusable Ansible templates that standardized provisioning across cloud and on-premise services, adopted by an org of 100+ platform engineers as the vetted baseline to build on.
• Led the Ansible Tower 3.6 to 3.8 upgrade across 15 consuming teams and delivered the migration without disrupting production workflows.

Optum / Eden Prairie, MN

• Led DevOps teams supporting government and military health contracts, delivering CI/CD and infrastructure under regulated, compliance-driven constraints.
• Re-architected Jenkins onto container-based infrastructure, replacing static-VM build agents with elastic on-demand workers. Build throughput doubled and operational downtime dropped by a third.
• Built zero-downtime automated deployment pipelines for high-availability healthcare workloads, and operated Jenkins, Chef, and GitHub Enterprise enterprise-wide, setting the reliability standards downstream teams depended on.

Optum / Minneapolis, MN

• Led a distributed team building internal Agile and engineering communities of practice across a 235,000-person organization, scaling adoption of best practices into every product group.
• Developed and delivered hands-on technical training in TDD, pair programming, and XP, a curriculum that shaped engineering culture across the org.

Optum / Minnesota

• Built end-to-end test automation across Selenium, Cucumber, and Sauce Labs, replacing manual QA cycles with continuous browser-coverage testing that ran on every build.
• Shipped zero-downtime deployments on OpenShift and developed pipelines-as-code in Jenkins, giving product teams a version-controlled, reusable release path.