Nathan Aschbacher
Senior Director, Advanced EV Development at Ford Motor Company
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Aschbacher is a senior technology leader and systems engineer with 14 years of experience building fault-tolerant distributed systems, now leading Advanced EV Development at Ford after his startup Auxon was acquired. He blends a functional-programming mindset and hands-on backend work—contributing to notable OSS projects like basho_bench—with deep expertise in safety-critical automotive systems and chaos-testing practices from large-scale payments and AV domains. Nathan has repeatedly scaled engineering teams and products from prototype to production, designing infrastructure, automation, and data-driven tooling that bridge intent to outcome for systems engineers. Known for pragmatic consensus-style leadership, he pairs rigorous functional-safety thinking with a builder’s appetite for elegant, fault-tolerant solutions. An interesting detail: his background spans both low-level manufacturing and high-velocity ML/telemetry platforms, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on cyber-physical reliability.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (8)
loadtest10
riak10
erlang10
load-testing10
testing10
http9
r9
performance-analysis9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
basho/basho_bench
Mar 2013 - Nov 2013
A load-generation and testing tool for basically whatever you can write a returning Erlang function for.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the `basho_bench` load generation and testing tool, focusing on enhancing existing functionality and adding new features. They updated the HTTP raw driver, enabling custom header appending, and added a new ETS driver for testing. Furthermore, the user implemented search query testing for the PB driver. The changes also included minor improvements to the R script for generating detailed latency graphs and fixing a bug in the URL round robin functionality.
erlangtesting
nathanaschbacher/nodiak
Nov 2012 - Feb 2015
Nodiak is a Node.js client for the Riak Distributed Database
Contributions:52 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
distributed-databasenodejs-clientriak
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