Nathan Esau
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNathan Esau is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently contributing to AWS Payments as an SDE II in Vancouver. He brings deep C++ and systems expertise from roles at NielsenIQ and Moody’s Analytics, where he optimized microservices, designed numerical algorithms for financial products, and modernized legacy codebases. Comfortable across the stack, he has implemented distributed job scheduling, containerized deployments, protocol buffers, and end-to-end test automation using Python, Java, Airflow and Docker. Known for pragmatic performance work—profiling with valgrind/perf and applying caching, branch-prediction and parallelism strategies—he also builds developer tooling to streamline debugging and deployment. His actuarial background and academic work in simulation and economic modeling give him a rare blend of quantitative rigor and production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Actuarial Science, GPA: 3.63, Bachelor's Degree, Actuarial Science, GPA: 3.63 at Simon Fraser University
English
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Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nathanesau/m4fe
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
nathanesau/makehams
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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