Nat Ayewah
Engineering Manager at The Trade Desk
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNat Ayewah is an engineering manager in London with over a decade of hands-on experience building developer tools, program analysis, and data-driven user experiences at Microsoft and The Trade Desk. He combines deep research roots (PhD-level work in static analysis and visualization) with practical product delivery—helping create the .NET project system and contributing to Roslyn analyzers and Visual Studio tooling. Nat excels at translating complex analysis and compiler technology into usable developer workflows, and he spends significant time coordinating releases, customer feedback, and test programs. He is drawn to democratizing AI and making machine learning accessible to domain experts, and has a track record of shipping experimental cloud-based source code search and analyzer-driven features. Colleagues know him for empathetic product thinking and a knack for finding new paradigms that simplify intricate technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at University of MarylandM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (12)
unit-testing10
net10
asp-net10
code-analysis10
dotnet10
roslyn10
vba10
csharp10
msbuild10
dotnet-core10
csproj9
fest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/project-system
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 123 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to the project system, implementing project properties providers. They developed new classes and interfaces to delegate project property operations and to manage properties that are not written to the project file but may be written from an external source. The user also added unit tests to verify the correct handling of these implicit properties. The contributions focused on C# code changes, as indicated by the file extensions and class names.
dotnetvisual-studio-extensionfsprojcsprojfsharp
dotnet/roslyn-analyzers
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 2 days
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to implementing and refining code analysis features within the Roslyn analyzers project. Their work focused on the creation of analyzers and code fixes, particularly for exception handling, which involved modifying existing code and adding new unit tests. They also integrated Visual Basic support for existing analyzers and code fixes and refactored the codebase by removing specific CSharp and VBasic implementations.
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