What

Promoting communication, creativity and sharing on the Internet.

Automating things and building software tools to make maintaining the internet easier.

Advocating for transparency, remix culture and open source software.

Who

A 30 year old from the San Francisco Bay Area, now living in Brooklyn and working for Google.

Writing

I write once or twice a week at writing.natwelch.com.

I have also written for other places:

• Real World SRE from Packt Publishing.
• Git Out The Vote: #chatops
• Code Words: Promoting reliability in web software companies & DDoS and You.

Projects

I post photos with varying consistency on Flickr & Instagram.

I try to be randomly clever on Twitter.

I publish code on Github.

My most well known creations are giftionary.city, mood.natwelch.com, sadnat.com, Onesie and fog-google. I also maintain some other semi-popular packages: three-things and instagram-continued.

I have documented my professional work on my resume.

Talks

I have given a variety of talks. Here are some that I am particularly proud of.

• StrangeLoop 2017 - Practical Applications of the Dickerson Pyramid
• SRECon 2017 Americas - SRE and Presidential Campaigns
• Recurse Center, 2016 - Tech and the US Presidential Campaign
• LinuxCon 2014 - Build Scalable Cloud Applications on Google Compute Engine Using Kubernetes and Mesos
• Cal Poly, 2013 - Site Reliability Engineering and Google Compute Engine (video)
• Cal Poly, 2011 - Punchd & Google