Nathan Gourley
Senior Director, Software Engineering at SelectQuote Insurance Services
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Gourley is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at SelectQuote in Kansas City. He rose through technical and managerial ranks at Cerner, moving from system administration and engineering to architect and senior manager roles, which gives him a rare combination of hands-on systems expertise and strategic delivery leadership. Nathan focuses on architecting scalable solutions, evaluating emerging technologies, and turning research spikes into production-ready features that improve operational reliability. He has deep experience in monitoring, alerting, and mission-critical system support—skills honed supporting global hospital systems. Known for blending practical engineering with team development, he consistently drives value through operational improvements and thoughtful technical debt management. Outside core responsibilities, he brings pragmatic cross-disciplinary experience from early VoIP and infrastructure roles that inform his approach to resilient system design.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Information Technology Information Technology, Bachelors of Information Technology Information Technology at University of Missouri-Kansas CityLiberty High School
Github Skills (43)
api-gateway10
serverless10
reverse-proxy9
artificial-intelligence9
kubernetes9
python9
api-management9
devops9
ansible9
ai9
cloud-native9
kubernetes-ingress9
microservices9
ssh8
spring-boot7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ngourley/ssh-copy-id
Apr 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
ngourley/marathon_cookbook
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:24 pushes in 3 months
mesospherecookbookinstallingapachemesos-framework
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