Nate Rickard
Principal Engineer at Total Quality Logistics
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolNate Rickard is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and leading mobile and cloud-first engineering teams across consumer and enterprise domains. He blends hands-on native Android/iOS and Xamarin development with Azure cloud architecture to deliver end-to-end apps, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable backend services. A proven team leader and mentor, Nate has driven product incubation and certification platforms at GitHub and guided customers through mobile DevOps transformations at Microsoft. He’s equally comfortable in pre-sales, partner enablement, and technical delivery, having shepherded projects from POC to production and managed a distributed partner ecosystem. Based in Cincinnati, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with an ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into clear business outcomes—often surfacing operational metrics to inform product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Software Development at Purdue University
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Github Skills (75)
nuget10
windows10
face-api10
microsoft-azure10
xamarin-ios10
microphone10
speech10
android-client10
face10
azure-sdk10
microsoft-cognitive-services10
audio10
sdk10
azure10
swift10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NateRickard/Plugin.AudioRecorder
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Audio Recorder plugin for Xamarin and Windows
Contributions:6 releases, 120 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
audio-recorderwindowsxamarinxamarin-pluginxamarin-ios
colbylwilliams/Cognitive-Face-Xamarin
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
A client library that makes it easy to work with the Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API on Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms and/or Portable Class Libraries.
Contributions:4 releases, 162 commits, 68 pushes in 3 months
androidface-apimicrosoft-cognitive-servicesxamarinmicrosoft
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