Nathan Hurst
Product, Design, Engineering at Fiveable
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Hurst is a multidisciplinary product, design, and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building education-focused platforms and developer-facing systems. Currently at Fiveable and previously steering engineering and product efforts at Teachers Pay Teachers, he blends hands-on software craftsmanship with product strategy to serve millions of users in learning ecosystems. His background spans startups and enterprise projects—from founding community-driven meeting platforms to leading tech teams at Amplify and SAIC—covering stacks in Ruby/Rails, Java, Python, and frontend engineering. Nathan has a proven track record of shipping scalable marketplaces and learning tools that prioritize teacher and student impact, informed by a Computer Science degree from the University of Virginia. He brings an operator-founder mindset to product engineering, comfortable oscillating between architecture-level decisions and user-focused design tradeoffs. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious, often surfacing unexpected cross-disciplinary solutions born from his mix of startup founding and large-team experience.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Stackoverflow
1,750reputation
157kreached
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nosql
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Github Skills (33)
coders10
nosql9
cassandra9
database9
prebuild8
mod-manager8
inno-setup6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
rdbms6
dynamic6
rails6
capybara6
terminology6
ajax6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nahurst/happy_to
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 1 day
nahurst/omniauth-ethereum
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Implements the Ethereum provider strategy for OmniAuth
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
provideretherscanethereumomniauthstrategy
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