Nat Torchia
System Engineer at GlobalSign K.K.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNat Torchia is a systems engineer based in Tokyo with 12 years of hands-on experience designing, maintaining, and modernizing backend systems across security, SaaS, finance, and industrial domains. At GlobalSign he drives digital certificate platform development, test automation, and API maintenance while introducing refactors and open-source tooling to improve testability and integration. Comfortable across Java EE, Rust, PostgreSQL and DevOps toolchains, he pairs production-focused engineering with low-level performance expertise — evidenced by substantial contributions to an amd64-assembly web server (asmttpd) implementing HTTP handling, sendfile support, TCP corking and critical bug fixes. He blends day-to-day operational reliability with a knack for squeezing efficiency out of systems and improving developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Computer Engineering Technology/Technician at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
file-processing10
webserver10
file-handling10
system-calls10
http10
assembly10
file-access10
fileio10
networking9
tcp9
performance-optimization9
error-handling9
network9
net9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nemasu/asmttpd
Jan 2014 - Jan 2022
Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 59 commits, 18 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Nat contributed extensively to the asmttpd web server project, written in amd64 assembly. Their work focused on implementing core functionalities, including HTTP response creation (200, 400, 404, 413, and 416 error codes), content type detection, and handling of file serving with sendfile for efficient transfer. Furthermore, they added support for features like TCP corking, URL path length limitations, and default document serving, thereby improving performance and functionality. Additionally, the user addressed critical bugs related to 206 responses and stack corruption.
linuxwebserver
nemasu/puddle-farm
Sep 2024 - Jul 2026
Ratings for Guilty Gear Strive
Contributions:1 PR, 128 pushes, 11 comments in 1 year 10 months
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