Nate Mccall
Greater Kapiti Area New Zealand
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Top SchoolNate Mccall is a Principal Software Development Manager based in Seattle with 14 years of experience building large-scale, data-driven systems and leading AI product development. A long-standing Apache Cassandra contributor and former PMC Chair, he brings deep expertise in distributed databases and backend engineering—evidenced by hands-on contributions to the popular hector Cassandra client. He has led technical teams and product R&D at companies from startups to enterprise (DataStax, Apple, IBM), and co-founded The Last Pickle consultancy to help customers deploy high-performance architectures. Nate pairs technical leadership with entrepreneurial instincts, founding a custom skate company that ships worldwide, showing a practical, customer-focused approach beyond software. Known for hiring and mentoring distributed teams, he blends operational rigor with open-source stewardship to move complex projects from prototype to production.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Visual Media Math, BA Visual Media Math at American University
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
cassandra10
java10
thrift9
apidoc9
api9
data-serialization8
serialization8
unit-testing6
logging6
mongodb6
database6
testing6
hector6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hector-client/hector
Mar 2012 - Jul 2015
a high level client for cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:188 commits, 1 push, 4 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Hector client for Cassandra. Their work involved adding functionalities such as `getPendingMutationSize` to the `Mutator` interface and ensuring that methods invoked the mutator correctly. They also addressed merge conflicts, fixed issues related to serializers and data types, and incorporated features like range slice queries. This suggests a focus on enhancing the client's core functionalities and performance within the context of interacting with a Cassandra database.
cassandra
zznate/inference-service
Sep 2025 - Feb 2026
Inference server written in Rust using Triton C APIs
Contributions:12 PRs, 13 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
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