Nate Chatellier
Founder & CEO at Nerd Ninjas
Spokane, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Chatellier is a seasoned game industry founder and CEO with 19 years of experience building cross-platform games and leading multidisciplinary studios from Spokane, WA. As founder of Nerd Ninjas he runs a fully remote co-development studio of 50+ seasoned creatives that has partnered with major brands like Niantic, Meta, Pokémon GO, Marvel, NBA, and CATAN across AR, VR, mobile, desktop, and console. He co-founded Dice Throne and helped drive seven successful Kickstarter campaigns raising over $11.5M, demonstrating both creative design chops and crowd-funded product-market fit. Nate’s background spans hands-on engineering and design roles at Niantic and Seven2, top-chart mobile launches, and teaching game development at the university level, so he combines technical depth with mentorship and studio-scale delivery. He’s comfortable pitching original IPs (Rogue Piñatas with Meta), scoping complex productions, and balancing rapid prototyping with polished releases. Outside the obvious, Nate blends formal CS/math training with a proven track record of turning tabletop success into digital and AR experiences.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelors of Science Computer Science Mathematics at Eastern Washington University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
network10
mouse10
keyboard10
synergy9
nokia5
samsung3
yandex2
linux2
windows-phone2
google-play2
amazon2
windows1
macos1
appstore1
ios1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
zeh/tweener
Mar 2007 - Jul 2009
Contributions:2 commits in 2 years 4 months
deskflow/deskflow
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
Share a single keyboard and mouse between multiple computers.
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
synergymouse-emulationmousesharingkeyboard-emulation
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