Nathan Fudenberg
Principal Software Engineer at Solo.io
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Fudenberg is a software engineer with four years of industry experience building cloud-native back-end systems and infrastructure, currently based in Somerville, MA. He has progressed from systems engineering roles through hands-on engineering and technical leadership at solo.io, and now contributes to Sandgarden, bringing practical expertise in Go and API gateway internals. Nathan's open-source work on a cloud-native API/AI gateway shows experience with HTTP connection management, codec design, AWS integrations, and security-driven dependency fixes surfaced by trivy scans. Known for pragmatic engineering and a dry wit about typing, he blends DevOps sensibilities with backend feature development and occasionally maintains personal projects under the handle @implausiblyfun.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
protocol-buffers10
go10
aws10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
protobuf10
microservices-application9
grpc9
microservices9
api8
apim8
api-design8
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 releases, 1577 reviews, 120 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan's commits primarily focused on enhancing the API gateway's features, including support for HCM (HTTP Connection Manager) and Connections, as well as the introduction of new codec types. They implemented changes related to propagation, reformatting and the introduction of new configurations. The user also addressed dependency updates, including those found by trivy scans. Furthermore, the user was involved in AWS-related enhancements, such as allowing for AWS ALB mode and the configuration of resource policies, which points to infrastructure management as well.
aiapi-gatewaycloud-nativeenvoyserverless
solo-io/gloo
Nov 2024 - Jun 2025
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Contributions:277 releases, 110 reviews, 36 PRs in 7 months
aiapi-gatewaycloud-nativesec
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