Nate Smith
Principal Engineer at Wealthsimple
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Smith is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems and shortening feedback loops for development teams. Currently at Wealthsimple, he brings deep Clojure and Ruby expertise from roles at CircleCI—where he helped launch Workflows and maintained dozens of Clojure microservices—and earlier platform work at Shopify and theScore. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and devops fluency, having driven faster deploys, safer incidents, and automated infrastructure at startups and scale-ups. An active maintainer in open-source Clojure tooling (notably modernizing the juxt/bidi routing library), he also organizes community learning as a founder of Papers We Love Toronto. Notably, he blends product-minded delivery with low-level reliability practices, making large systems easier to change and faster to observe.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
url-routing10
package-management10
clojure-cli10
routers10
testing10
router10
clojure10
schema10
clojurescript10
uri9
compojure9
open-url9
ring9
xml6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
juxt/bidi
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Bidirectional URI routing
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nate contributed to the `bidi` repository by upgrading dependencies, including Clojure(Script), Ring, Compojure, and Ring Mock. They refactored the codebase to use reader conditionals and removed cljx files, which were no longer needed. The user also updated the testing framework to use `cljs.test` and integrated `doo` for running tests. These contributions focused on maintaining and modernizing the project's dependencies and build processes.
bidirectionalrouteruriroutingclojure
nwjsmith/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1934 commits, 800 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 3 months
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