Summary
Nate Conroy is a founding software engineer with 10 years of experience building distributed systems and high-traffic web platforms, now focusing on foundational software for trusted marine autonomy at Zydro Marine. He has a strong backend pedigree from roles at Roblox—where he helped design and launch the company's ads business and stabilized its virtual currency infrastructure—and at Amazon on Alexa’s speech recognition engine. Comfortable across Rust, Python, and Haskell, Nate pairs practical engineering with a math graduate’s rigor, stemming from a master’s-level mathematical background and a BS in computer science. He’s led cross-functional technical designs, built production pacing, delivery, and billing systems, and has hands-on experience with autonomy-related tooling from prior defense and marine projects. Based in San Francisco with roots in Austin, he brings a mix of startup founding grit and large-scale systems experience to autonomy and distributed systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Rochester