Nat Welch is an Site Reliability Engineer based in Beacon, NY, where he lives with his partner and their cat. He is the author of two books: "Real World SRE" from Packt and "Reliable Webservers with Go" from Newline. He has been professionally building and running software on the internet since 2005, and loves making tools and promoting conversation online. He currently works for Laurel as the Lead of the Cloud Platform team. In the past, he has worked for Punchd, First Look Media, Hillary for America, iFixit, Google, and others.

In his free time, Nat enjoys contributing to open source projects, writing, reading, fishing, listening to music and wandering through cities and countrysides.