Nate Stewart
Chief Executive Officer at Materialize
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNate Stewart is a product-driven CEO with nine years of experience shepherding developer-focused database and infrastructure products, currently leading Materialize, the live data layer for apps and AI agents. He rose through product leadership at Cockroach Labs—culminating as Chief Product Officer—and previously built product orgs and launched major releases like CockroachDB 2.0. Nate combines engineering roots from Bloomberg and a BS in Computer Science with an MBA from MIT Sloan, blending technical fluency with go-to-market and category-creation expertise. He has a track record of scaling product teams, defining unified data models, and shipping resilient SQL data platforms for global customers. Based in New York, he sits on multiple boards and is known for translating low-level distributed-systems tradeoffs into product decisions that enable predictable developer experiences. An entrepreneurship competition winner at MIT, he brings a founder’s rigor to strategic roadmap and partner-building efforts.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS (Honors) Computer Science, BS (Honors) Computer Science at University of MichiganMBA Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MBA Entrepreneurship and Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management
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Github Skills (73)
postgresql10
cloud-native10
arangodb10
sql10
database10
kubernetes10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
go10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
ride10
streaming9
internals9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroachdb-cloudformation
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Quickly setup dev/test CockroachDB clusters using AWS CloudFormation and Kubernetes
Contributions:36 commits, 36 PRs, 62 pushes in 11 months
cockroachdb-clustersaws-cloudformationdevclustersdev-test
cockroachdb/movr
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
A fictional ride sharing company.
Contributions:6 reviews, 55 commits, 35 PRs in 2 years 4 months
reactsharingfictionalnodejsride
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