Nate Barbettini
Founding Engineer at Arcade.dev
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNate Barbettini is a founding engineer and AI-focused builder with 11 years of experience shipping developer-facing products and developer experience improvements from startup to scale. He’s co-founded and led engineering at AI-first startups (CTO at Cobbler, now Founding Engineer at Arcade.dev), blending hands-on backend work, agent-based generative AI, and product strategy. A Microsoft MVP alumnus and former Okta product manager/developer evangelist, he’s comfortable translating technical complexity for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. Nate is an active open-source contributor—having implemented and modernized core .NET tooling such as StyleCopAnalyzers and ported jwt-dotnet to .NET Standard—demonstrating deep expertise in .NET, build automation, and API design. Based in San Francisco, he pairs practical engineering craft with a knack for hiring and scaling teams, and still finds time to author educational content and tooling that improves developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Thomas Edison State University
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Github Skills (55)
asp-net-core-mvc10
json10
api-rest10
javascript10
ternary-operator10
api-design10
restful-api10
string-interpolation10
guideline10
xamarin10
asp-net-core10
cicd10
user-guide10
netstandard10
stylecop10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
nbarbettini/BeautifulRestApi
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Beautiful REST API design with ASP.NET Core and Ion
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 3 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Nate was the initial creator of the project, responsible for setting up the basic structure of an ASP.NET Core REST API. They defined initial controllers, models, and database context with in-memory database for the API. The user then implemented Ion metadata and collection features and added API endpoints, demonstrating REST API design principles and data access layer setup. The refactoring commits show a deeper understanding of building APIs.
apidotnetaspionasp-net
okta/okta-developer-docs
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
okta-developer-docs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 87 PRs, 139 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the Okta developer documentation repository, making changes related to the Vuepress theme, specifically within the guides section. Their work included updating Liquid tags, integrating a "next section" button, and refining components for guide navigation and display. Furthermore, they updated the documentation with fixes, including code and wording improvements, which suggests familiarity with the project's code and purpose.
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