Nate Brennand
Software Engineer at Metronome
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNate Brennand is a software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and modernizing distributed systems, currently focused on high-throughput, cost-conscious event processing at Metronome. He’s fluent in Go and Python and has a track record of renovating legacy stacks—reducing operational steps by 80% at Stripe and driving major monolith-to-microservice transitions at Bolt and Clever. Nate combines platform-level reliability work (DB migrations, CI/Bazel optimizations, observability) with practical automation like transpilers and pluggable HTTP clients that improve developer velocity. He enjoys mentoring engineers and shaping team processes, and seeks roles where transparency and engineering leadership are valued. A detail that often surprises peers: he routinely pairs deep operational ownership (oncall for 2M+ RPS systems) with developer ergonomics improvements that raise the bus factor and reduce human error.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
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Github Skills (200)
switch10
abstraction10
golang10
insertion10
vfs10
filesystem10
docker10
fs10
twilio10
ecosystem9
cybersource9
mongoose9
charts9
wireless9
helm9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Clever/gearman
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
Gearman client, written in Go
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 2 months
golanggearmango
Clever/pathio
Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
go library for transparently writing to and reading from different types of paths (supports stdout, s3, and fs)
Contributions:3 releases, 14 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 4 months
golangreflectgo-librarygofaster
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