Nathan Garland
Software Development Engineer In Test at Epic Games
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Garland is a Software Development Engineer in Test with over 20 years of experience designing cloud-based test automation and quality strategies for products from Internet Explorer to Amazon Luna and Alexa. He has led automated testing for consumer IoT and global cloud services—spearheading test frameworks for Amazon Dash Button and scalable simulators that model thousands of concurrent users. At Amazon he automated labeled training data pipelines for Alexa ML teams and helped embed testing across CI/CD lifecycles; he now applies that expertise to Unreal Engine testing at Epic Games. A contributor to Microsoft’s Fluent UI, Nathan blends front-end accessibility improvements with deep backend test infrastructure knowledge, making him comfortable across the full stack of product reliability. Colleagues rely on him not just for tooling but for coaching teams to integrate automation into development processes, and he seeks opportunities to shape innovative products from the ground up.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of Washington
Github Skills (8)
accessibility10
typescript10
component-kit10
typescripts10
fluentd10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 115 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the enhancement of UI components within the Fluent UI web library. Their work focused on improving accessibility and user experience by modifying component roles, adding missing roles for accessibility, and enabling features such as data attributes. They addressed issues related to the interaction of components such as the Dropdown, TagPicker, Panel, Pivot, and Rating components, ensuring proper functionality and usability across different platforms and extensions. Several commits involved applying the "fluent" theme to various UI components.
fluentuireact-componentreact-componentsweb-componentsreact
oengusmacinog/office-ui-fabric-react
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
React components for building experiences for Office and Office 365.
Contributions:12 PRs, 203 pushes, 115 branches in 7 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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