Nate Olsen
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Kensington, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Olsen is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir with a decade of hands-on software experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He brings strong skills in Python and C++, having applied them across production deployments, data pipelines, and analytics work for high-stakes clients. His background includes developing Airflow/BigQuery pipelines and Tableau dashboards to surface election-related social media activity, plus research on autonomous drone swarm algorithms—evidence of both practical product delivery and experimental systems work. Nate’s experience as a TA across discrete math, internet-scale apps, and computer architecture underscores his ability to communicate complex technical ideas and mentor peers. Based in Kensington, Maryland, he blends analytical rigor with a taste for applied research, often connecting academic methods to operational solutions.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (9)
portal9
internet8
django-framework8
scale7
fundamentals6
web-development6
machine-learning6
python6
data-science5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cwhite96/shoe-store
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 2 months
nolsen97/crazyflie
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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