Nate Broyles
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolNate Broyles is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on distributed systems, databases, and scalability, now based in New Jersey and working at Palo Alto Networks after Chronosphere’s acquisition. He combines deep hands-on engineering—contributions to the M3 time-series DB (adding index minor versions and checksums) and enhancements to Cash App’s misk framework—with leadership across IC and EM roles. His background includes building payment, loyalty, and compliance systems at Square and co-founding a consumer startup, giving him both product instincts and systems-level rigor. Nate’s practice blends research-driven curiosity (Recurse Center studies of distributed datastores) with practical testing and compatibility work that keeps large-scale services reliable under change.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Michigan
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kotlin10
timeseries-database10
database-connection10
testing10
databases10
server-configuration10
java10
javas10
go10
database10
google-cloud-platform9
ios9
gcp9
distributed-tracing9
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Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:380 reviews, 196 commits, 219 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the core functionality of the M3 Time Series Database by adding new features. Specifically, they added a concept of minor versions to index files for checksumming, and implemented checksum fields for index entries. These changes involved modifications to the message pack encoding, and required the writing and modification of round trip tests to ensure compatibility.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
cashapp/misk
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
Microservice Kontainer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 71 PRs, 98 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on enhancements and bug fixes within the `misk` framework. Their contributions include improvements to the `InMemoryStorageRpc` class within the GCP storage module, integrating configuration for distributed tracing using Jaeger, and adding support for database security configurations like trust and client certificates. Further, they were involved in logging improvements and removing redundant data source properties.
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