Nate Otto
Founder CEO at Skybridge Skills
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNate Otto is a founder and CEO with 12 years building digital credentialing platforms and standards, best known for leading product and engineering for the Badgr platform and helping shepherd Open Badges into a formal standard. He now runs Skybridge Skills, delivering credentialing products like ORCA and enterprise issuing systems while offering consulting and custom development in the recognition ecosystem. Nate blends hands-on software craftsmanship (from WordPress and custom stacks to platform-scale credential services) with standards work and community leadership, having driven Open Badges 2.0 into IMS Global. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he pairs a liberal-arts background with practical product instincts and a tendency to prefer email or team channels over LinkedIn for faster responses.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, Political Science, BA, English, Political Science at University of OregonHigh School, High School at Crescent Valley High School
English
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Github Skills (73)
backpack10
django10
surf10
workitem10
lms9
python9
verifiable-credentials9
upstream9
w3c9
mozilla9
credentials8
rehype8
http8
verifiable8
descriptor8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fedora-infra/badgr-server
Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Open Badge issuing and management with Django
Contributions:436 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
django
kayaelle/openbadges-jsonld-jsonschema-validator
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 12 days
javascriptvalidatorvalidation
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