Nathan Bessette
Executive Director at Southface Institute
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Bessette is an entrepreneurially-minded engineering leader with 11 years of experience building profitable operations, product portfolios, and innovation programs across defense, manufacturing, and sustainability sectors. As an executive at Southface Institute and former COO of EdgeDweller, he has doubled company revenue, boosted margins by up to 70% on key product lines, and operationalized repeatable innovation processes for clients from NASA to Fortune 500s. He combines mechanical engineering chops and an MBA to bridge technical execution and strategic growth—leading relocations, turnkey outsourcing programs, and pipeline rebuilds that balance near-term wins with high technology readiness. Nathan is skilled at translating complex engineering constraints into scalable service offerings and has taught hundreds to participate in innovation, reflecting a talent for both hands-on systems thinking and people-centered leadership. Based in Atlanta, he brings a track record of measurable financial and mission impact alongside deep experience in operationalizing novel products and processes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Business Administration (MBA), General Business, Master of Business Administration (MBA), General Business at Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Github Skills (164)
programming-language10
authenticator10
jetpack10
protocol-buffers10
golang10
protobuf10
serialization10
go10
rpc10
marshalling9
mobile-application9
webextension9
protoc9
discord9
kotlin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
frickenate/ohash
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 22 commits, 27 pushes in 1 month
frickenate/dockerlab
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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