Nathan Hoel
Co-Founder & CTO at BinSentry
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNathan Hoel is a Co-Founder and CTO with 12 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, secure web architectures from startup to enterprise. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he combines deep hands-on expertise in RESTful APIs, PKI, and cloud-scale systems with a passion for breaking complex problems into extensible, maintainable components. He’s held progressive roles from software developer to principal architect and software architect at companies including Vidyard and Desire2Learn, where he led teams, mentored engineers, and tackled vertical scale and security challenges. Nathan gravitates toward leadership through influence and respect, prioritizing team health while remaining an obsessive learner who quickly masters new domains. As a founder of BinSentry, he applies pragmatic trade-offs between speed and long-term architecture to deliver reliable production services. An underrated strength is his focus on proving scalability and security empirically—using load testing and mature crypto practices to validate designs before rollout.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Computer Science Mathematics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (83)
api-authentication10
hmac-sha51210
secrets9
vault9
marketo9
locate9
hmac9
qr-code9
rails-api9
hmac-sha19
api8
sign-in-with-apple8
hashicorp-vault8
encryption8
security8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nathanhoel/nathanhoel.github.io
May 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
nathanhoel/next-level-timing-graphs
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
Accepts data copied from the Next Level Timing interface and graphs it
Contributions:8 PRs, 162 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
graphsnext-level
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