Nathan Brown
Platform Architect & Engineering Leader | Scaling Cloud-Native Infrastructure for Enterprise Innovation
- Role
- Platform Systems Architect at Expeditors
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nathan Brown
Visionary Platform Engineering leader spearheading DevOps and Platform Engineering initiatives at enterprise scale. Recognized thought leader in Kubernetes, GraphQL federation, and cloud-native architectures, driving technological innovation and cultural shifts across global organizations.
Experience
Platform Systems Architect
Nov 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Platform Systems Architect | Enterprise Core Platform | DevelopersArchitecting the platform powering Expeditors\' global technology organization. Leading a 12-person team building AI systems, self-service infrastructure, and API platforms that let product teams ship faster.AI Systems & Agent PortfolioAuthored the ECP Agent Constitution governing every agent we build: boundary discipline, grounding, refusal rules, migration awareness, lifecycle ownership. Shipped and promoted production agents in Copilot Studio (Pathfinder, Architecture Advisor, PM Agent, ADR Drafter) with observability over corpus hits, refusals, and grounding. Driving an enterprise agent-to-agent buildout against high-impact value streams.AI-Assisted Engineering FrameworkRolled out a spec-driven AI dev framework across chassis, orchestrator, and module repos. Twenty slash commands, fourteen analysis agents, PM adapters for ADO and GitHub. Runs on Claude Code and Copilot CLI. Validators enforce ADR compliance, migration safety, and security on every PR.Project KrakenRearchitecting Blueprint into 16 provider-agnostic modules coordinated by a central orchestrator. Authored the Kraken Constitution and Patterns. Five-library shared chassis with strict semver and a 30-day deprecation window.API Platform & FederationLed migration from legacy schema stitching to Apollo GraphQL Federation, ending weekly outages and improving response times 3x across 5 product portfolios. Lead company-wide schema governance.Infrastructure & ReliabilityMulti-cloud Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS) running 150+ apps at 98.5% deployment success. Custom Go operators. Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) cut incident resolution in half. Policy-as-code with Kyverno, Cosign and SLSA for supply chain, ArgoCD for GitOps. Led the Europe region buildout. Monthly Community of Practice for 200+ developers. Innovation Award winner.Building platforms that disappear when they work and are debuggable when they don\'t.
Education
Colorado Technical University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering
ITT Technical Institute-Aurora
Associate’s Degree, Electrical Engineering
Clearwater High School
High School
Skills
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Musicians
- Grounds Management
- Study Skills
- Stagecraft
- Music Production
- Musical Theatre
- Money Management
- Building Maintenance
- Maintenance & Repair
- Team Building
- Public Speaking
- Operations Management
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- C++
- Process Improvement
- Manufacturing
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