Nathan has almost 20 years' experience in the field of bioinformatics with expertise in cereal genomics, transcriptomics, system biology, phylogenetics, bioinformatics training, Linux sysadmin, pipeline development, high-performance and cloud computing.Nathan's background was first in biology, by undergraduate training, and then in bioinformatics by PhD. During his PhD he investigated the location of the root, the oldest part, of the eukaryotic tree of life. At this time he was also exposed to high-performance computing infrastructure and the Linux operating system.Following his PhD he took up a bioinformatics postdoctoral position on a project looking at the range margins of Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea. During this time, Nathan was responsible for the systems administration of several Linux machines and was first exposed to metabolomics data analysis.Nathan then joined CSIRO as a postdoctoral research fellow using system biology approaches to investigate complex production traits in livestock species.Nathan got his first taste of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data when he joined the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) as a senior bioinformatician. It was here where he spearheaded efforts to establish an unincorporated bioinformatics interest group in South Australia (BIG SA) and led the establishment of a cloud-based Bioinformatics Training Platform (BTP) in collaboration with Bioplatforms Australia (BPA), CSIRO Bioinformatics Core and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).Nathan joined the ACPFG in the School of Ag, Food & Wine in late 2013. He played a pivotal role in the development and application of analytical approaches and pipelines to NGS-based wheat genomics data sets. He was responsible for setting up and managing the Linux-based scientific computing infrastructure, including several large memory compute nodes configured as a Slurm cluster, 100's TBytes of clustered filesystem storage and around 2 dozen virtual machines.