Nathan Glass
Distinguished Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Glass is a Distinguished Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale cloud and distributed systems across leading companies like Palo Alto Networks, Stripe, AWS, Oracle, and Temporal. He has progressed from hands-on development roles at AWS to principal and staff engineering positions, demonstrating strength in architecture, reliability, and production-grade systems. Nathan repeatedly moves into roles where he shapes platform direction and mentorship—most recently taking a senior technical leadership role at Palo Alto Networks after senior engineering stints at Resourcely and Temporal. His background spans both enterprise software and developer-platform businesses, giving him a pragmatic focus on operability and developer experience. Colleagues would note his pattern of joining fast-evolving teams to codify architecture and accelerate delivery without sacrificing engineering rigor. Trained in computer science at Baylor, he brings both deep technical craft and a proven ability to influence cross-functional engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Baylor University
Github Skills (25)
microservice-framework10
docker10
distributed-cron10
temporal10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
webservice10
workflow-automation10
jax-rs10
golang10
workflow-management10
java9
jdbi9
rest9
hibernate9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nagl-temporal/temporal
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Temporal service
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
golangdockertemporal
nagl-temporal/temporal-mcp
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Empowering AI with Workflow Orchestration
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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