Nate Bross
Software Development Engineer III at Bross Ventures, Limited
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNate Bross is a seasoned Software Development Engineer III based in Chicago with 13 years of professional experience building resilient .NET and C# systems and guiding architecture as a principal and solutions architect. He blends deep hands-on engineering—rooted in a lifelong passion for programming that began with qBASIC and Visual Basic—with practical sysadmin experience, enabling him to design robust, production-ready services. Nate has led technical work at startups and consultancies, runs his own consulting practice, and recently joined ShipBob to drive scalable shipping platform features. Known for continuously learning from open source and community resources, he pairs legacy perspective with modern practices and a knack for pragmatic problem solving. Off the clock he pursues Americana passions like classic cars and train travel, a personal curiosity that mirrors his methodical, long-term approach to engineering.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
General Education, General Education at City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright CollegeBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Northeastern Illinois UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Advancing Technology
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Github Skills (200)
swagger10
openapi10
swagger-tools10
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json10
api-server10
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windows10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fuzzzerd/time2temp
May 2018 - Mar 2022
A simple Barbecue or Smoking Time and Temperature Cheat Sheet
Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 11 months
smokingcheat-sheetsheetbarbecuemeat
fuzzzerd/laughing-waffle
Nov 2017 - May 2021
Laughing Waffle is a helper library for doing bulk insert and upate (read upsert) work with SQL Server. Specifically providing help and code generation around the MERGE Statement.
Contributions:18 PRs, 73 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 6 months
bulk-insertcode-generationsql-serverwafflesql
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