Bio
Nate Ferrell is a Sr. Systems & DevOps Engineer currently working primarily in the financial sector with a focus on developing open-source PowerShell tools in his off-time. The California native has been exploring the beauty that Texas has to offer with his wife, newborn son and 4 dogs. When not working on developing tools to “automate all the things”, Nate and his wife help out with The Love Pit Rescue.
My Talks
Breaking Free From Web UI Administration: Using PowerShell to Increase Efficiency and Eliminate Human Error in a Cloud-Focused World
Onboarding a new hosted platform can be daunting, especially when considering how to administer tasks like access management or reporting where there is simply no out-of-the-box way to get the data...
Building Free Serverless Backends with Google Apps Script & Google Sheets
Looking for a free solution to build a simple, serverless backend quickly? You can Google that (no, really)! This talk will cover creating a free REST API using Google Apps Script, along with lever...
Finding Your Niche: How Venturing Off The Beaten Path Can Elevate Your Skill Set
Running into a problem where the only solution is an obscure command-line tool? Or written in a different language than what you're comfortable with? The talk covers pushing your boundaries, ventur...
Supercharging Your Productivity with PSProfile
Finding that your PowerShell profile has become a mass of various settings to initialize and scripts to invoke for each session? Building modules with classes or DLLs and want to avoid session rege...
Using External .NET SDKs with PowerShell
Using external .NET SDKs from NuGet or elsewhere can provide some big benefits when working in PowerShell, as well as introduce some new pain points. This session covers tips, tricks, and how to av...
Writing Dynamic Infrastructure-As-Code with VaporShell & AWS CloudFormation
With VaporShell, you can skip JSON and YAML and write AWS CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code in pure PowerShell, leveraging all of the goodness that comes with it. Required parameter validation,...