Nater Jorde
Principal Engineer at Thrivent
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNater Jorde is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently leading architectural and delivery efforts at Thrivent in Minneapolis. He specializes in modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks—Node.js, React, GraphQL/REST—backed by experience with MongoDB, MySQL and Oracle, containerization with Docker, and production web serving with Nginx. A pragmatic hands-on developer and mentor, he seeks roles that let him shape and instruct the next generation of web engineers. Nater contributes to open-source tooling—most notably enhancing excel4node to support cell ranges, formulas and robust data validation—demonstrating a knack for solving practical developer pain points. His background ranges from academia (Harvard web systems) to enterprise product teams, and he brings an unusual blend of technical depth and customer-facing experience dating back to his Apple Genius days.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Studies of Cinema and Media Culture, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Studies of Cinema and Media Culture at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
xml9
data-validation9
api-design7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
natergj/excel4node
Aug 2014 - Jul 2022
Node module to allow for easy Excel file creation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 346 commits, 110 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Nater primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `excel4node` module. They implemented the ability to work with cell ranges, including merging cells, and added methods to set cell properties such as formulas, strings, numbers, and dates. The user also fixed bugs related to the application of borders to cell ranges and ensured that the data validation feature worked correctly.
file-creationnode-modulenpm-packagenodejscreation
natergj/dynamic-react-module
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Allow for independent react web app module development and deployment while keeping single page experience
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 month
reactdeploymentindependentreact-websingle-page
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