Nate Wiger
SVP Engineering at Applied Systems
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Wiger is an experienced technology executive with 25+ years building teams and cloud-scale products, currently serving as SVP Engineering at Applied Systems leading their largest SaaS product. He has a track record of founding and scaling engineering sites and organizations—from launching AWS’s Specialist Solutions Architects practice and Amazon Fresh San Diego to growing teams from zero to hundreds—and has led major product platforms at Intuit and PlayStation. Nate blends hands-on engineering (notably early AWS adoption and open-source Ruby work like redis-objects) with product leadership that drove AI-driven features and measurable business outcomes such as faster delivery cycles and increased customer engagement. Known for reorganizing teams into high-performing, full-stack two-pizza squads, he pairs systems-level thinking from his Sun Microsystems datacenter work with a user-focused product lens. Based in San Diego, he balances technical depth with practical execution and a personal passion for mountain biking, live music, and family time.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English
Github Skills (5)
rspec10
redis10
autoload10
ruby10
object-oriented-programming9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nateware/redis-objects
Aug 2012 - Jun 2022
Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 171 commits, 52 PRs in 10 years
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on fixing require/autoload issues and debugging the project's autoload functionality. They modified spec files to ensure the correct behavior of autoloading for different Redis object types like Counter, HashKey, and List. Further changes included modifying the core redis/objects.rb and also several spec helper files which demonstrate refactoring effort to maintain a well-functioning Redis-backed object layer for Ruby applications.
redisruby
nateware/dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Nov 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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