Summary
Nate Pappenhagen is a full-stack web developer with eight years of experience building user-focused applications and backend systems, blending React, GraphQL, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, and AWS. He has moved between roles in QA, engineering, and tooling—shipping greenfield React + Java Spring Boot projects, re-architecting test frameworks, and creating an AWS serverless data ingestion pipeline in Node/TypeScript. Nate brings practical product sensibilities from prior work in retail leadership, specialty coffee, outdoor programming, and even boutique pickle production, which informs his user-centered approach and operational mindset. Currently based in Duncanville, Texas, he’s exploring concurrent backend design in Go while continuing to close technical debt and improve developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
full stack web development, full stack web development at General Assembly
BA Geography & GIS, BA Geography & GIS at University of North Texas
Spanish