Nathan Hessler
Founder & CEO (Chief Everything Officer) at AustinRB
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Hessler is a founder and seasoned software leader with 12+ years of experience helping startups and mid-size companies scale through thoughtful engineering, service extraction, and maintainability improvements. He combines deep Ruby and Elixir expertise with hands-on systems work (including Rust and hardware integrations) to take products from 0 to 1 in regulated domains like cash-based betting kiosks. As an engineering manager and director he’s improved developer experience, launched high-impact growth initiatives, and increased customer lifetime value through product redesigns and high-velocity experimentation. He’s also a community builder in Austin—organizing Ruby meetups and rebuilding in-person tech events—bringing a people-centered approach to technical work. Notably, he balances strategic roadmapping and compliance navigation with day-to-day coding and team coaching, earning a reputation for rescuing struggling teams and instilling transparency.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (49)
realtime10
elixir10
emacs-lisp10
emacs-prelude10
emacs10
phoenix-framework10
api-server10
ruby9
web-framework9
mongodb8
playing8
boxen8
bootstrap7
nodejs7
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nhessler/nhessler.github.io
Dec 2019 - Oct 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
nhessler/dotfiles
May 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:96 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 2 months
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