Nathan Herring
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Herring is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with over two decades of industry experience and a 13-year track record at Google driving cloud-native microservice architectures, security, and continuous delivery to Kubernetes and serverless platforms. For the last decade he has combined hands-on engineering with technical leadership and architecture oversight for small-to-medium teams, shepherding systems from design through secure, automated release. His open-source contributions span critical tooling—improving gRPC CLI TLS validation and helping maintain Java JSON libraries and Bazel Docker rules—reflecting a practical focus on interoperability, build reliability, and testability. Nathan’s background at Microsoft and long tenure at Google give him deep institutional knowledge of shipping large-scale, backwards-compatible systems. He’s equally comfortable refining build systems and adding subtle security flags that make testing ephemeral environments safer, a detail that highlights his blend of systems-level rigor and pragmatic engineering.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
A.B., A.B. at Dartmouth College
Spanish, German, English
Stackoverflow
977reputation
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windows
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google-cloud-storage
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Github Skills (43)
json10
ss10
docker10
c-language10
ssl10
skylark10
python10
json-schema10
command-line-interface10
sslv310
build-system10
dockers10
java10
javas10
release-management10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
java-json-tools/json-patch
Jan 2020 - May 2020
An RFC 6902 (JSON Patch) and reverse, plus RFC 7386 (JSON Merge Patch), implementation in Java using Jackson (2.2.x)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 35 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the `json-patch` library by updating dependencies, fixing deprecation warnings, and adding missing overrides. They also made changes to build configuration, and fixed code by implementing override and modifying the structure, and modifying the build files to support Java 7 and linting. The user is also responsible for bumping versions of dependencies.
javajson-patchrfc
java-json-tools/json-schema-validator
Apr 2019 - May 2020
A JSON Schema validation implementation in pure Java, which aims for correctness and performance, in that order
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build/Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:3 releases, 41 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the build and configuration of the Java JSON Schema Validator project. Their work included updating the Gradle build system, fixing Javadoc errors and refactoring of code. They also integrated changes related to RFC3339 date-time formats, updated release instructions, and prepared the project for a new release.
javajson-schema
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