Nathan Parker

Cloud Architect & Systems Builder

Shipping AI systems people can operate.

From emergency medicine to cloud infrastructure, I solve complex problems in high-stakes environments where failure has consequences.

Currently: Senior Cloud Architect & Forward Deployed Engineer at DoIT International. Building Open Hardware Manager, Stringboard, and production agentic AI systems.

Projects

Manufacturingv0.9.0 · Active development

Open Hardware Manager

Infrastructure for manufacturing resilience. Universal data standards, automated matching, supply chain coordination — now with a live web frontend.

Press FreedomBeta

Stringboard

Local-first platform for data journalism. AI-assisted analysis of leaked datasets without exposing sources to cloud infrastructure.

Press Freedomv0.3.0

Glovebox

Open-source MCP server for privacy-preserving AI analysis. Models get metadata and aggregates — never raw content.

Developer Tooling

AI Developer Tooling

repo-map: codebase comprehension agents can grep instead of reading whole. lesson: turns a correction into an enforceable hook, lint rule, or skill so the same mistake can't recur. Plus more Claude Code skills for cleaner agentic development.

Why This Matters

Most engineers optimize for performance or scale. I optimize for impact in environments where failure has consequences.

Manufacturing Resilience

When supply chains collapse, distributed capacity exists but lacks coordination.

Open Hardware Manager

Press Freedom

Journalists need secure tools to investigate corruption without compromising sources.

Stringboard

Commercial AI

Enterprises need AI systems that actually work in production under real constraints.

Production AI Systems

Background

15 years: Emergency medicine, welding, heavy equipment operation, large-scale event production
7 years: DevOps engineer → Senior Cloud Architect → Forward Deployed Engineer

What transferred: Crisis management, systems thinking, operational discipline, precision under pressure

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