Natalie Villasana
Desktop Engineer at Network 1 Consulting
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalie Villasana is a Desktop Engineer based in the New York City area with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and developer tooling. She moved from software and DevOps roles at Storj—contributing core netstate/routes and object storage operations in a notable decentralized cloud project—into teaching and creative roles that sharpened her communication and product thinking. Her background blends a Creative Writing BA with a software development bootcamp and copywriting training, giving her a rare mix of technical depth and persuasive communication. Natalie has operated across startups and agency environments, shipping features, improving observability (zap logger integrations), and mentoring aspiring engineers as a Developer in Residence. Colleagues know her for pragmatic problem solving and a design-minded approach to engineering decisions. Outside of work she curates a professional site and maintains an active GitHub showcasing cross-disciplinary projects that bridge code and narrative.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at DigitalCraftsCopywriting, Copywriting at The Book Shop School For AdsBachelor’s Degree Creative Writing, Bachelor’s Degree Creative Writing at Oberlin College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
golang10
boltdb10
data-storage10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
go10
api10
distributed-file-system10
apidoc10
database-design9
logging9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 132 commits, 222 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Natalie primarily contributed to the back-end of the Storj v3 development project. Their work includes implementing a new zap logger and adding supporting flags. A significant portion of their contribution involves the implementation of a netstate/routes package, interacting with a boltdb client. The user also added the functionality for Put, Get, List, and Delete operations, which likely involved database interactions and API development for object storage.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
navillasa/storj
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 108 pushes, 15 branches in 8 months
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