Nate Smith
Peoria, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorNate Smith is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 11+ years building high-growth SaaS and AI platforms from the ground up. As founder of Lever (YC S12) he led both product and engineering through multiple funding rounds and a $517.5M exit, and today he is founding Collate to commercialize AI-driven regulatory and paperwork workflows for life sciences. He blends hands-on JavaScript engineering and realtime collaboration experience (co-authoring DerbyJS/ShareDB) with strategic leadership roles at Google and Y Combinator. Based in San Francisco and serving on Olin College’s Board of Trustees, he pairs deep product sensibility with a knack for recruiting and scaling technical teams. Notably, he moves fluidly between CEO and CTO responsibilities, consistently turning complex domain problems into pragmatic, revenue-driving software.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
5,054reputation
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15answers
91questions
Github Skills (113)
component-library10
semantic-ui10
semantic-ui-react10
full-stack10
react-library10
react-components9
queue9
stripe-api9
job-queue9
timezone9
stripe9
nuxt9
react9
vue9
nodejs9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
readablereport/covid
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Static site for local Covid 19 data
Contributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year
static-site
dvorijs/dvorijs.com
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Website for Dvori
Contributions:16 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
react
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