Nate Bird
Software Engineering Manager at Abbott
Canton, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolNate Bird is a software engineering manager with 15 years of experience leading teams to deliver scalable, secure web and embedded solutions, currently driving cloud migrations and mobile rearchitectures for connected medical devices at Abbott. He blends startup agility with medical-device rigor, collaborating across regulatory, QA, DevOps, and product to ship auditable systems that interoperate with other devices. Nate has hands-on backend experience in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem and has improved widely used security extensions—modernizing code, addressing deprecations, and tightening CI and compatibility. He also reduced COGS by $1M through a pragmatic redesign of device pairing and built cross-functional and offshore teams to accelerate delivery. Based in Canton, Georgia, Nate pairs an MBA in org behavior and IT with a BA in economics to balance technical execution and organizational change.
15 years of coding experience
MBA, Organizational Behavior, Information Technology, MBA, Organizational Behavior, Information Technology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBA, Economics, BA, Economics at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
devise10
testing10
rails10
datatable10
security10
datatables10
ruby10
sql10
activerecord10
checkbox9
back-end-development9
databases9
database9
postgresql7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
devise-security/devise-security
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
A security extension for devise, meeting industry-standard security demands for web applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 47 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily refactored and updated the `devise-security` gem. Their contributions focused on renaming classes and modules, updating Ruby syntax, and addressing Rubocop recommendations for improved code style. The user's changes touched multiple files related to the core functionality of the gem, including models, controllers, and configuration files. They also updated dependencies.
industry-standardmongoidpassword-expirationactivemodelsession-cookie
jbox-web/ajax-datatables-rails
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
A wrapper around DataTable's ajax methods that allow synchronization with server-side pagination in a Rails app
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on enhancing the data table functionality within the Rails application. Their contributions centered around implementing features to handle null values during sorting, enabling more flexible ordering options. They also addressed Rails 6.0 deprecation warnings by wrapping order calls in Arel.sql and optimized the code to use different SQL syntaxes, specific to the database adapter type.
datatablesrails-appjquerypaginationrails
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