Summary
Nathan Franz is a pragmatic software engineer with roughly a decade of experience bridging embedded electronics and backend services, currently working as Software Engineer II in Somerville, MA. He brings uncommon cross-discipline fluency—designing schematics, routing PCBs and hand-soldering prototypes while also authoring well-tested RESTful microservices in C# and Node.js. Nathan has strong expertise in three-tier architectures, CI/CD with GitLab/Jenkins and PostgreSQL, and a track record of reducing production errors by designing highly testable code. He transitioned from firmware and QA into backend engineering, leveraging automated test suites and data-migration scripts to streamline delivery at companies like Vistaprint/Cimpress. Comfortable across hardware-to-cloud lifecycles, he pairs systems-level thinking with a habit of keeping pull requests small and maintainable to speed reviews and deployments.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English