Nate Mcdowell
Software Engineering Manager at Optimum
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Mcdowell is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams to build scalable web platforms and developer tooling. He has led large, global migrations—most notably unifying Condé Nast’s flagship brands onto a multi-tenant Node/React/GraphQL platform that powered over half the company’s web revenue—and scaled engineering practices that cut production defects by over 90%. Nate blends hands-on front-end expertise in TypeScript, React, and Angular with a strong focus on test-driven development, E2E automation, and developer productivity (he built Multiverso to spin up 100 PR instances for reliable integration testing). He’s also an entrepreneur and maker who prototyped a foldable electric motorcycle and learned embedded protocols and mechanics while growing an engaged social audience. Based in NYC, he now guides teams into the AI era, prioritizing sustainability, efficiency, and cross-organizational collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Communication, General, Communication, General at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (31)
reporter7
continuous-integration7
build-automation6
docker6
devextreme6
build-pipelines5
go5
jsonml5
continuous-delivery5
git5
protractor4
converting4
testing4
cicd4
mocking4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
natemcdowel/angular-mock-and-record
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
A protractor framework that mocks and records http responses
Contributions:3 PRs, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
reporterrecordsmock-servertestingmocks
natemcdowel/socketObject
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 1 day
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