Summary
Nate Meier is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and back-end systems with 11 years of experience building scalable data platforms and ETL pipelines, currently leading data engineering at Glydways. He is fluent across the Python data stack, Spark, Airflow, relational design, and AWS, and has repeatedly driven migrations and platform builds that standardize tooling and streamline analytics for cross-functional teams. Nate has deep domain expertise in geospatial data processing and visualization, having built geospatial video management and reporting tools earlier in his career. An Air Force veteran and certified Korean linguist, he brings disciplined program management and cross-cultural communication skills to technical leadership. He founded and chaired a Data Engineering Guild to spread best practices and mentor peers, showing a bias for teaching as well as building. Outside work he’s a volcanologist-turned-guitarist and avid soccer player, reflecting a curiosity that fuels creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dubois Area Catholic School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Geoscience Geophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Geoscience Geophysics at Penn State University
Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Intelligence Studies and Technology, Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) Intelligence Studies and Technology at Community College of the Air Force
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Korean, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Korean at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack Reactor
Certificate of Completion Korean 6-Level Regular Program, Certificate of Completion Korean 6-Level Regular Program at Yonsei University