Nathan Caza
Lead Engineer at Target
Eagan, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Caza is a Lead Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating backend systems and deployment infrastructure, currently driving engineering work at Target from Eagan, MN. He brings deep Go expertise and practical DevOps skills, evidenced by contributions to notable open-source projects like GoAlert (on-call scheduling and alerting) and gqlgen (GraphQL code generation), where he improved service deployment, metrics, and codegen robustness. His background spans retail and healthcare tech with roles advancing from hands-on embedded/automotive integration to leading application development and automation efforts at Best Buy and RetraceHealth. Known for bridging developer ergonomics and production reliability, he combines low-level troubleshooting instincts with a track record of shipping scalable platform improvements. An often-overlooked strength is his history of tooling and build-system work—Makefile, container builds, and runproc utilities—that keeps teams shipping faster and safer.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
docker10
makefile10
wpgraphql10
dockers10
codegen10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
postgresql9
cicd9
devops9
schema9
go-generate9
cpp-templates8
apptemplates8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
target/goalert
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Open source on-call scheduling, automated escalations, and notifications so you never miss a critical alert
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 2081 reviews, 3204 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathan's contributions focused on the GoAlert backend and deployment infrastructure. They added features to the `runproc` utility in `devtools` and made changes to the `go.mod` file, indicating active involvement in backend development. The user also modified the Makefile, including support for container builds, and updated the code for the service for handling the deployment on different platforms. The user also made changes to the code related to metrics.
alertcriticalescalationson-callscheduling
99designs/gqlgen
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
go generate based graphql server library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the `gqlgen` library, focusing on improvements to the code generation and template processing features. Their work involved modifying code generation logic to handle type mismatches, adding new interfaces for resolver implementations, and fixing template formatting issues. They also made changes related to generating the schema and integrating with the `shortMapper` for improved resolver implementations.
golangcodegenartemissubscriptionsgraphql-tools
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