Summary
Nate Hawthorne is a software engineer with a decade of experience in QA, SDET, and front-end engineering, currently building software at DocuSign after progressing from SDET into a full engineering role. He spent four years at Callaway Golf driving QA across a dozen websites, managing weekly releases, and launching an automated testing program using Selenium WebDriver and C#. Nate champions modern development practices—branching, deployment schedules, and test automation—to improve team velocity and reliability. His background includes hands-on systems work decommissioning data center hardware, giving him practical operational perspective beyond pure software. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends practical infrastructure experience with a focus on scalable, maintainable web delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Texas State University
Certificate of Completion: Front-End Engineering Front-End Engineering, Certificate of Completion: Front-End Engineering Front-End Engineering at The Iron Yard
English