Nate Pickens
Software Engineer at Self-employed
California, United States
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Top SchoolNate Pickens is a California-based software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building product-grade systems from startup roots to independent consulting. A founding engineer at Looker, he helped design core product infrastructure and scale the company through rapid growth, then transitioned to independent software work in 2018 while also serving as an EMT—bringing a pragmatic, user-focused mindset and calm under pressure. His technical background spans iOS, Ruby/Rails, MySQL, Redis, NGINX, and systems automation, with early work on automated publishing and ad-bidding tools that reflect a knack for integrating services and operational ownership. Nate combines product intuition from his PM stint with deep engineering experience, making him equally comfortable sketching requirements and shipping resilient backend and mobile features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzComputer Science, Computer Science at Cabrillo College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
sinatra9
rack8
xslt8
dsl7
libxml27
ruby7
sax7
nokogiri7
xml7
libxslt6
looker6
javascript6
web-development5
ifttt5
drift5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
npickens/potluck
Mar 2021 - Oct 2025
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch, 8 tags in 4 years 7 months
npickens/htx
May 2019 - Jan 2023
An HTML template system that is simple, lightweight, and fast.
Contributions:154 commits, 1 PR, 89 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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