Nathan Florendo
Junior Software Engineer at WEX
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Florendo is a Junior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of practical experience building backend systems, APIs, and user-focused frontends. He has shipped production features including an AI-powered journaling and note-management system integrating Hugging Face for auto-tagging and sentiment insights, and has experience with Express.js, PostgreSQL, OAuth 2.0, containerized deployments, and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, Nathan pairs secure REST API design and asynchronous background processing with responsive React UIs and single sign-on integrations. His background includes hands-on accessibility auditing and support roles that sharpen his attention to usability and operational reliability. A proactive contributor and mentor, he has guided student projects and managed cross-functional teams in university tech services and student organizations. He brings a practical, user-centered approach to turning complex problems into intuitive, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (10)
macaulay27
continuation7
interval-arithmetic6
root-finding5
solve5
multiprecision4
polynomials3
parallel-computing3
computer-algebra1
gpu-acceleration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nbliss/higher-dim-N-P
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
nbliss/Likelihood-MRC
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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