Nathan Herder
Founder, CEO at Ardley
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Herder is a founder and CEO with nine years of formal experience and two decades of hands-on work at the intersection of finance and technology, most notably in credit risk and mortgage analytics. He progressed from developer roles into leadership at Fannie Mae, then CTO at a mortgage startup before launching his own venture, bringing deep domain expertise in credit risk, financial engineering, and software development (SAS, Java, web stacks). Nathan combines an MBA in Finance and an MS in Information Systems to translate complex financial models into production-grade systems and scalable product strategy. He has run private lending and investing activity, giving him practical capital markets insight that informs technology decisions. Known for bridging quantitative analysis with pragmatic engineering, he builds solutions that prioritize auditability and business impact. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade rigor.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Systems, MS Information Systems at The George Washington UniversityMBA Finance, MBA Finance at The George Washington University School of BusinessBS Information and Telecommunication Systems, BS Information and Telecommunication Systems at Ohio University
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OperationBrokenWaterfall/Quest
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
CS262 Team Application
Contributions:2 releases, 60 commits, 33 PRs in 2 months
nherder41/Yahtzee
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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