Summary
Nate Bender is a Vice President and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, enterprise-grade systems at JPMorgan Chase. He has led modernization efforts—reverse engineering legacy applications and rearchitecting them into microservices using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and Oracle—while guiding small teams through sprint planning and delivery. A Drexel Software Engineering alum with a 3.98 GPA, Nate combines strong technical depth with hands-on skills from earlier roles in C#, AngularJS, and iOS development. He’s equally comfortable writing performant backend services and debugging complex integration points, and he has a track record of improving scalability and automation (including parallelizing archival processes). Colleagues cite his blend of curiosity and leadership: he actively mentors, runs standups, and translates business requirements into maintainable code. Ambitious about management, he continues to focus on becoming an even stronger engineer while preparing to scale his impact through people leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Software Engineering, 3.98 GPA, Bachelor's of Science, Software Engineering, 3.98 GPA at Drexel University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Upper Dublin High School
English