Nate Buwalda
Senior Engineering Manager at Optro
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNate Buwalda is a Senior Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience leading full-stack application teams and owning product delivery across enterprise and web-based systems. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, C#, big data architectures, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) with a strong background in Agile and XP practices to ship scalable microservice and data-driven applications. Nate has progressed from developer and technical lead roles to product-facing technical ownership, notably driving agronomic data platforms and automated test/analysis tooling at John Deere. He mentors engineers, teaches accelerated Java courses, and has led local Java user-group efforts—reflecting a commitment to developer community and workforce upskilling. Based in Apex, NC, he’s particularly skilled at translating complex technical requirements into pragmatic delivery plans and tooling that accelerate team decision-making.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, MIS, BS, MIS at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (11)
netflix8
spring-boot8
java7
spring7
ribbon6
feign6
netflix-zuul5
netflix-eureka5
microservices5
spring-cloud5
cloud-native4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
natebuwalda/Cassandra-Client
Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
Contributions:21 commits in 3 months
pedrodelnero/git_practice
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
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