Nate Pauzenga
Sr. Manager & Sr. Software Engineer at Element 84
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Pauzenga is a seasoned senior software engineer and manager with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end and full-stack web solutions across non-profit, public, and commercial sectors. At Element 84 he leads engineering and product delivery for NASA-related projects, contributing to the open-source Cumulus ingest/archive platform while also shipping user-facing React and Ruby on Rails features for high-traffic media products. He pairs hands-on implementation (including AWS serverless architectures, Step Functions, DynamoDB, ECS, and Lambda) with people leadership and product ownership. An active open-source contributor, Nate enhanced the faker-ruby library’s hipster module and began its unit tests, reflecting his attention to feature breadth and code quality. His background in audio engineering and technical sound design gives him an uncommon blend of systems thinking, creative problem solving, and meticulous implementation.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Editing, Recording, and Mixing, Audio Editing, Recording, and Mixing at Omega Studios' School of Applied Recording Arts & SciencesFull Stack Web Developer Track, Full Stack Web Developer Track at Bloc
Github Skills (5)
testing10
fakerjs10
faker10
ruby10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
faker-ruby/faker
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Nate contributed to the development of the `faker-ruby/faker` library, specifically focusing on the "hipster" module. Their contributions involved adding new functionality, including new words and classes related to hipster-themed data generation. Furthermore, the user started the implementation of unit tests, demonstrating a commitment to testing the functionality of the library's components. These changes demonstrate a focus on extending the library's capabilities and ensuring code quality through testing.
phonetestingrubyaddressesphone-numbers
npauzenga/meet_meeples-server
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:181 commits, 101 PRs, 108 pushes in 2 months
meetgeeksboard-gameback-endboard
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