Nathan Heaps
Staff CI Build Systems Engineer (App DevX Team) at ŌURA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Heaps is a full-stack web platform engineer with 11 years of experience designing resilient developer workflows, CI/CD, and cloud-native infrastructure. He blends hands-on frontend and backend work (JS, Python, Go, Kotlin) with ops expertise—Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker and service mesh patterns—to improve developer velocity and operational excellence across large monorepos and distributed systems. Nathan has driven measurable improvements in CI stability and startup times, led migrations to Prometheus and ArgoCD, and introduced AI-powered automation for SDK generation and code review using Claude/Agent tooling. An active contributor to notable open-source projects like Storybook and Reddit’s baseplate.py, he focuses on improving developer UX through clearer error handling and better metrics. Based in Boston, he runs a home lab where he experiments with agentic AI and shares tooling back to the community.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, Information Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, Information Science at Northeastern UniversityAdvanced Regents Diploma, Advanced Regents Diploma at New Rochelle High SchoolDesigned and developed games in Python which contained no violence., Designed and developed games in Python which contained no violence. at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteComputer Science, Computer Science at Iona University
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Github Skills (23)
application-framework10
javascript10
python10
storybook10
app-framework10
typescript10
nextjs10
prometheus10
typescript-types10
web-framework10
typescripts10
react10
debugging9
metric9
pyramid8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
reddit/baseplate.py
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
reddit's python service framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 265 reviews, 45 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the `baseplate.py` framework, a Python service framework. They made several changes to Prometheus metrics, including adding and correcting labels, and fixing the metric name format. Other contributions include refactoring the thrift_pool, swapping links, and correcting an issue in the pyramid framework. The user's work focused on improving metrics, and bug fixes.
pythonredditservicesframework
storybookjs/storybook
Aug 2023 - Sep 2023
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 3 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving the error handling and debugging experience within the Next.js font loading functionality of Storybook. They updated error messages for failed Google Fonts to provide helpful debugging information. Additionally, they made code formatting changes, and performed a merge operation to incorporate changes. This work indicates a focus on improving the developer experience and streamlining the build process.
storybooktestingui-componentsstyleguidewebpack
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