nathaniel wagner

nathaniel wagner is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Backblaze, a team responsible for (in nathaniel's words) "when things inevitably break." He has previously served as a Systems Engineer, a position where he helped run the backend application and database servers for hospitals throughout the U.S. and Canada, and specifically ensuring ACID compliance in large Oracle databases. These days, he spends his time thinking about the consistency of over 100 billion files in a Cassandra cluster with over 200 nodes. (For fun, he says.)