Nate Bierdeman
Software Engineer at PayPal
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Bierdeman is a software engineer and former CEO with nine years of experience building production-grade SDKs and scaling product-driven businesses. At PayPal he contributes to front-end components of a payments SDK that helps facilitate hundreds of billions in annual transactions, including accessibility and UX improvements to checkout/button flows and Venmo experiments. Previously he led Black Lion Audio from hands-on product design to international recognition, implementing patented tech and complex inventory/financial controls. Nate combines a maker’s attention to detail—tuning pro audio hardware—with data-driven, team-first leadership that values diverse perspectives and disciplined execution. He thrives at the intersection of product, engineering, and growth, and often brings unexpected domain crossover from audio engineering into pragmatic software solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Actualize Coding BootcampB.M., B.M. at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (10)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
interface-design9
accessibility9
css9
user-interface9
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paypal/paypal-checkout-components
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
please submit Issues about the PayPal JS SDK here: https://github.com/paypal/paypal-js/issues
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 83 commits, 61 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the front-end components of the PayPal checkout system. Their work included removing correlation IDs from buttons, creating and ramping up an experiment for Venmo desktop, and refactoring the render logic of the PPoF (Pay with PayPal) components. The commits show improvements to the accessibility and size responsiveness of buttons and labels. The user's changes also involved modifications to the UI including styling, and the incorporation of a menu button.
paymentsreactiframejavascriptcheckout
paypal/paypal-smart-payment-buttons
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Smart Payment Buttons
Contributions:114 reviews, 125 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 8 months
paypalbuttonspaymentsmart-payment-buttons
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