Grant Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Workiva
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building robust, high-performance systems spanning distributed web applications, embedded consoles, and space-grade software. He specializes in designing efficient data structures and algorithms that power collaborative, data-heavy web clients and real-time embedded GUIs, and has delivered documented libraries that led to patents and publications. His background includes designing fault-tolerant communication and recovery algorithms (CRC, Hamming, Viterbi, Reed–Solomon) flown on satellite and ISS missions, reflecting a rare blend of applied mathematics, low-level reliability engineering, and product-focused development. At Workiva he architects both server and client components for highly dynamic, multi-tenant collaborative applications; prior roles include embedded and 3D graphics work for agricultural systems. He pursues rigorous, maintainable solutions—thoroughly tested and documented—and enjoys tackling unfamiliar, challenging problems from which he often produces reusable libraries. Based in Bozeman, Montana, he balances deep technical curiosity with outdoorsy pursuits, bringing steady innovation and practical rigor to every project.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Montana State University-Bozeman
English
Github Skills (19)
rendering10
svg10
flutter9
dart9
slice6
lex5
compiler-construction5
cobol4
parser4
bundle4
python3
labeling3
markdown3
scripting3
swagger2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Grant-Nelson/drOpenAPI
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
A simple markdown generator for an OpenAPI bundle
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
markdown-generatorbundleopenapi3openapimarkdown
Grant-Nelson/ThreeDart
Nov 2015 - Jul 2021
3D graphical rendering tool for websites written in Dart.
Contributions:602 commits, 113 PRs, 510 pushes in 5 years 8 months
svgdartgraphicalrenderingflutter
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