Natalie Downe
Naturalist And Environmental Technology And Communications Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNatalie Downe is a product-focused engineering leader and front-end specialist with 17 years of experience building accessible, responsive web experiences and leading teams from startup to acquisition. As co-founder and CPO of Y Combinator-backed Lanyrd she raised $1.4M, led frontend engineering and product design, and orchestrated the team’s acquisition by Eventbrite, where she later directed frontend engineering and mobile initiatives. She now applies her technical and product skills to environmental technology and conservation, combining hands-on naturalist training from Stanford JSK courses with practical volunteer work in marine mammal care and public science education. Known for pragmatic, maintainable front-end architecture and strong mentorship, she blends startup grit with deep domain curiosity—equally comfortable running a migration to mobile-friendly pages or coordinating tidepool stewardship programs.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
YCW2011 Startups and Business, YCW2011 Startups and Business at YCombinatorGCSE's, GCSE's at Clyst Vale Community collegeBCCC A levels in Information Technology Art and Design Mathematics and General Studies, BCCC A levels in Information Technology Art and Design Mathematics and General Studies at Exeter College2:1 BSc Computer Information Systems, 2:1 BSc Computer Information Systems at University of BathJSK Affiliate, JSK Affiliate at Stanford University
English, German, French, Spanish, Malagasy
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Github Skills (25)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
natbat/pocketbook
May 2009 - Mar 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 11 months
natbat/scicomm-calendar
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
Environmental and #sciComm Twitter games
Contributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 68 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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