Nate Bessa
Director Of Engineering at Bluebird Kids Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNate Bessa is a Director of Engineering and product-focused technologist with a decade of experience building AI-enabled digital health products and data pipelines. He has led engineering teams through product pivots and launches—at Buoy Health he scaled an AI symptom triage product to millions of users, introduced generative AI into workflows, and drove a D2C revenue pivot that delivered substantial new monthly income. Nate combines hands-on engineering (Python/Django, ETL, FHIR integrations, Bayesian networks) with operational rigor—maintaining zero turnover for an 8-person team while managing data flows of ~1M daily events. He co-founded a funded startup (Helpful), built widely used healthcare research infrastructure at Harvard Medical School, and continues to advise clinical AI projects at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Based in Boston, he pairs product instincts and clinical-data expertise with a knack for measurable SEO and performance improvements that amplify impact beyond engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Business Administration, BS Computer Science and Business Administration at Northeastern University
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
visualization10
dashboard10
postgresql10
google-sheets-api10
mysql10
gspread10
spreadsheet10
google-sheets-api-v410
clojure10
google-sheets10
metabase10
slack10
google-sheet10
data-visualization10
database10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hms-dbmi/hypatio-app
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:540 commits, 512 PRs, 348 pushes in 1 year 8 months
natebessa/soccer-rsvp
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
A Flask-based, Lambda-deployed, SMS chatbot for collecting and storing RSVPs for your next soccer game.
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
chatbotflasksmslambdapython
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