Nathan Hughes
Chief Operating Officer
Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Hughes is a technology executive and co-founder with over three decades of hands-on experience and 12 years leading as an executive, currently serving as COO of Detroit Labs where he helped build the company from employee #1 and shaped its vision, mission, and operations. He combines deep delivery and product instincts—having led engineering teams through 500+ client launches and a bi-weekly release cadence at ePrize—with strategic leadership across Sales, Technology, and People functions. Nathan has a strong background in database and enterprise systems from early roles managing Oracle ERP and university mission-critical databases, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and scaling. He’s skilled at turning siloed engineering organizations into collaborative, high-performing teams and coaching senior leaders into broader roles. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, he pairs local roots with a proven track record of building repeatable delivery processes and rightsizing teams during change. A history-and-computer-science BA holder, he brings a blend of technical depth, operational rigor, and long-term entrepreneurial perspective that’s not obvious from a title alone.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA History Political Science Computer Science, BA History Political Science Computer Science at University of Michigan-Dearborn
Github Skills (1)
hubot9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ndh/GettingCleaningData
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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