Data Analyst · Marine Corps Veteran · Austin, TX

Nathaniel
Cutler.

I turn complex data into decisions: from school-finance models shaping Texas education policy to building production dashboards used by legislative staff statewide.

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About

Eight years in the Marine Corps.
Now in the data analysis.

After eight years in the United States Marine Corps as a CBRN specialist, operating mobile laboratories, leading hazmat teams at National Special Security Events, and managing $11M in critical assets, I turned that discipline toward data science.

Today I work at the Texas Legislative Budget Board as a Data Analyst on the Public Education team, where I build and maintain the systems that inform school-finance policy for every school district in Texas.

When I'm not working with state data, I'm running a self-hosted homelab: a two-node Proxmox cluster managing 20+ containerized services spanning media, home automation, document archival, and more.

Years USMC

Years Serving TX Districts

20+

Self-hosted Services

1,343

Hours in Stellaris

Manor, TX

Work

Featured Projects

Professional · LBB Public Education

FSP Dashboard

A production multi-page Plotly Dash application used by the Texas Legislative Budget Board to QC and compare Old vs. New Foundation School Program model runs. Spans seven analytical pages: statewide tax breakdowns, enrollment trends, property value growth, entitlement components, facilities funding, a district choropleth map, and a per-district lookup table. Built a parquet-cached dataframe architecture supporting multiple model formats through a unified abstraction layer, substantially reducing page load times across all 1,000+ Texas school districts.

Python Plotly Dash pandas geopandas GDAL Parquet GitHub

Internal tool · not publicly available

Personal · Ongoing

Home Lab

A two-node Proxmox virtualization cluster with PCIe GPU passthrough for hardware-accelerated transcoding. MikroTik routing, Pi-hole ad-blocking, and a Debian VM hosting 15+ Docker containers: media (Jellyfin), photo management (Immich), document archival (Paperless-NGX), home automation (Home Assistant), and more. Secured externally via Cloudflare Tunnel.

Proxmox Docker Linux MikroTik Cloudflare Home Assistant

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Academic · Capstone

Project Radiance

Led a team of 4 in building a publicly accessible relational database of global ambient radiation measurements. Aggregated U.S. RadNet, UK DESNZ, and Japan's NRA data through an ETL pipeline, bridging the gap left by the IAEA's non-public dataset. Hosted on AWS with PostgreSQL.

Python R PostgreSQL AWS Power BI ETL

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Capabilities

Skills & Stack

Languages

Python

SQL

MATLAB

Java

HTML / CSS

Visualization

Plotly

Dash

Tableau

Power BI

geopandas / GDAL

Analytics

Regression

Classification

Decision Trees

Random Forests

Anomaly Detection

ETL Pipeline Design

Infrastructure

AWS

Docker / Portainer

Proxmox / Linux

PostgreSQL

Databricks

Cloudflare

NathanielCutler.

Eight years in the Marine Corps.Now in the data analysis.