Nate Perry
Available for side projects

Nate Perry

Software engineer at AWS working on Edge Services. I build scalable cloud infrastructure, secure distributed systems, and the occasional iOS app.

See my workrfp.nrperry.comgeo.nrperry.com
Arlington, VA— ET GitHub LinkedIn Email
Nathan Perry
Currently
AWS · Edge Services
Shipping
About

A cloud engineer focused on reliable infrastructure and well-designed APIs.

The short version — I care about infra that's reliable, APIs that are pleasant, and shipping products that people actually use.

I got into software through GIS — starting at Anne Arundel Community College, then a CS degree with a Geospatial Information Sciences minor at Maryland. At UMD I built interactive campus mapping tools used daily by thousands of students.

I spent two years on AWS's National Security Practice building secure serverless geospatial APIs, ETL pipelines at scale, and reusable cloud building blocks adopted across 10+ internal teams. I'm now on AWS Edge Services shipping control-plane APIs, encrypted data-plane paths, and central config management for edge-deployed hardware.

Outside the day job I'm building Setlist, a live-music discovery platform. More at rfp.nrperry.com and geo.nrperry.com.

  • Role
    Software Engineer
  • Team
    AWS · Edge Services
  • Base
    Arlington, VA
  • Focus
    Cloud · Edge · GIS
  • Studied
    UMD · CS + GIS minor
  • Status
    Open to collab
Work

Five roles across cloud, geospatial, and edge systems.

From a UMD GIS internship to shipping edge infrastructure at AWS — each stop compounded on the last.

Projects

Side projects, products, and experiments.

A rotating mix of products I'm building, weekend experiments, and tools I wanted to exist.

Featured
rfp.nrperry.com

RFP

A personal project at rfp.nrperry.com — more details coming soon. Reach out if you want an early look.

Next.jsVercel
Featured
app.setlistapp.org

Setlist

A live-music discovery platform helping fans find local shows and artists share events, replacing fragmented sources like venue pages and social media.

Full-stackLive MusicDiscovery
Interval Timer

Interval Timer

iOS App Store · 5★

SwiftUI interval timer featuring clean, animated progress graphics. Published on the App Store with a 5-star rating.

SwiftUIiOS
A* Pathfinding Visualizer

A* Pathfinding Visualizer

Python + Pygame

An interactive visualization of the A* pathfinding algorithm, built with Pygame.

PythonPygameAlgorithms
Next.js Todo

Next.js Todo

Firebase + Tailwind

Persistent to-do app with Firebase Auth and Firestore, styled with Tailwind CSS.

Next.jsFirebaseTailwind
Education

The classroom years.

Stack

The tools behind what I build.

What I've shipped production systems with — plus the certifications that back them.

✦Python✦TypeScript✦Java✦SwiftUI✦JavaScript✦SQL✦AWS✦AWS CDK✦ECS/Fargate✦Lambda✦PostGIS✦Vercel✦Next.js✦Python✦TypeScript✦Java✦SwiftUI✦JavaScript✦SQL✦AWS✦AWS CDK✦ECS/Fargate✦Lambda✦PostGIS✦Vercel✦Next.js
✦Git✦Linux✦Docker✦CI/CD✦ArcGIS✦Python✦TypeScript✦Java✦Git✦Linux✦Docker✦CI/CD✦ArcGIS✦Python✦TypeScript✦Java
Certifications
  • Amazon Web Services
    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Amazon Web Services
    AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
  • Amazon Web Services
    AWS Certified Developer — Associate
  • CompTIA
    CompTIA Security+
Contact

Have something fun to build?

Always down to chat — side projects, weird ideas, or just to say hi. I try to reply within a day.

nathanperry@randdgroup.comrfp.nrperry.comgeo.nrperry.com