Nate Jones
Chief Technology Officer at Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Post Falls, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolNate Jones is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 14 years of senior leadership experience building and scaling software platforms in Private Equity–backed environments. He combines hands‑on engineering and architecture expertise with proven success as a VP of Engineering and product-minded technologist, emphasizing quality-first execution and clear architectural standards. Nate has operationalized AI and LLM integrations across products and platforms, balancing build-vs-buy decisions with security, observability, and cost governance to drive pragmatic developer productivity gains. He’s led technical due diligence, post-acquisition integrations, and value-creation initiatives for both buy-side and sell-side M&A, translating investment theses into executable roadmaps that improve growth and exit readiness. A mentor to founders and students through advisory roles and university entrepreneurship programs, he cultivates empowered, self-organizing teams and bottom-up innovation. Based in Post Falls, Idaho, he pairs Silicon Valley engineering rigor with practical operational focus across early-stage advisories and larger enterprise transformations.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoLHS
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
digital-signage10
fade-out6
google-forms6
ajax6
fade-in6
javascript6
google-maps-api6
attr6
google-maps6
geolocation6
google-drive-api6
wordpress-plugin2
php2
photo-gallery1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
natejones/wpds
Nov 2011 - May 2015
A WordPress digital signage solution that uses Zurb’s Foundation.
Contributions:62 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
digital-signagewordpress
natejones/conversations
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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