Nate Taylor
Director Of Engineering at Skillable
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolNate Taylor is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling cross-functional software teams and delivery processes, now serving as Director of Engineering at Skillable. He combines hands-on backend and frontend experience—working with Node.js, Sequelize, Docker, and modern JavaScript UX patterns—with a proven track record of coaching, hiring, and retaining high-performing engineers across enterprise and product organizations. Nate has driven large migrations, introduced organization-wide learning initiatives, and led teams that supported multi-million dollar clients while consistently improving engagement and manager NPS. Known for creating internal networks to understand broader business goals, he actively champions mentoring programs and protected learning time so engineers can grow without losing velocity. Based in Omaha, he brings a rare mix of technical depth, operational rigor, and public-facing confidence, comfortable presenting to audiences from one person to hundreds.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyM. Div Theology, M. Div Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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Github Skills (34)
asynchronous10
sequel10
javascript10
expressjs10
async10
es6-promise10
css10
front-end-development10
html10
nodejs10
sequelizejs10
api-design9
restful-api9
postgresql9
ef-code-first9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
taylonr/async-programming-promises
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
The code samples for the Pluralsight Course JavaScript Promises and Async Programming
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits, 13 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Nate focused on developing the front-end aspects of the JavaScript Promises and Async Programming course examples. They implemented UI elements, including buttons and result displays, and integrated JavaScript modules to demonstrate concepts such as race conditions, callbacks, and promise chains. The user also made style adjustments and added a waiting indicator for a better user experience. Their contributions primarily involved HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
asyncjavascript
taylonr/intro-to-protractor
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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