Summary
Natasha Armbrust is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir with a decade of hands-on experience building customer-facing systems and shipping full-stack solutions. A Cornell M.Eng. and summa B.S. in Computer Science with a design minor, she blends rigorous engineering with product-focused design sensibilities honed leading an iOS app team and teaching CS courses. Her background spans AdWords feature development at Google, embedded diagnostics at Lutron, and applied materials research—illustrating comfort across frontend, backend, and experimental domains. At Palantir she translates complex client needs into deployable software, leveraging both deep technical chops and cross-disciplinary communication. Colleagues describe her as pragmatic and detail-oriented, with an unusual early-career research stint exploring ZnO nanorods on textiles that underscores her curiosity for unconventional applications of computing.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering - Computer Science; Minor - Design and Environmental Analysis, Summa cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering - Computer Science; Minor - Design and Environmental Analysis, Summa cum laude at Cornell University
High School, High School at Ridgefield High School