Nate Holland
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Holland is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing revenue-critical web platforms, currently contributing to Bitbucket at Atlassian from Austin. He has led engineering teams and managed product roadmaps while also shipping hands-on backend work—rewriting core business engines, upgrading monolithic stacks, and architecting microservices and CI/CD pipelines. His background spans e-commerce shipping systems, search-quality experimentation, and developer-facing tooling, with notable open-source contributions to the Ruby ChatOps framework Lita where he improved logging and adapter flexibility. Nate combines technical leadership and mentorship with a rigorous academic foundation in computer science, machine learning, and business, and is comfortable navigating both strategic hiring decisions and deep refactors that improve maintainability and observability.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science: Machine Learning, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science: Machine Learning, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.5, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, 3.5 at University of CaliforniaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, 3.9, Master of Business Administration - MBA, 3.9 at The University of Texas at Austin - Red McCombs School of Business
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Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
rspec10
chatbot10
ruby10
hash6
amazon-web-services6
boolean6
negation6
yaml6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
litaio/lita
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
ChatOps for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nate focused on enhancing the shell adapter and logging functionalities of the Lita chatbot framework. They implemented features such as configuring a private chat room and added the ability to configure log formatting. The user also refactored the logger configuration and made adjustments to the configuration options of the framework. They ensured compatibility with existing implementations while also making changes to enhance the overall flexibility and maintainability of the Lita framework.
chatopslitarubymrubychatbot
natesholland/test
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:26 reviews, 15 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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