Nate Tessman
Staff Software Engineer at Capsule
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Tessman is a Staff Software Engineer in the Los Angeles area with 11 years of experience building high-performance web and infrastructure systems across startups and large cloud providers. He has driven substantial efficiency gains—reimplementing a high-throughput ingestion API to cut compute costs by ~60% and refactoring front-ends for 200% speed-ups—while shipping secure, globally scaled services at AWS using TypeScript, Node.js and Rust. Nate contributes to open-source front-end tooling (notably Ractive.js), focusing on cross-browser reliability, testing, and component behavior. Comfortable across the stack, he also builds developer-facing tools and mobile apps to accelerate testing and compliance, and he documents best practices for packaging and deployment. An MBA with entrepreneurial focus, he blends product-minded engineering with pragmatic operational improvements that reduce cost and time-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Github Skills (7)
r-js10
ractivejs10
javascript10
front-end-development10
testing10
component-development9
css9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ractivejs/ractive
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Next-generation DOM manipulation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on refining the Ractive.js library's front-end functionality and testing framework. Their work included fixing bugs related to component initialization and CSS encapsulation, and adjusting boolean logic. The user's contributions show a focus on improving the reliability and cross-browser compatibility of the testing suite. The user also addressed an issue with component templates and their handling.
manipulationnext-generationdom-manipulationdomdom-generation
Madgvox/unity-scene-groups
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 31 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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