Nathan Hyland
Staff Software Engineer at Atomic
Queen Creek, Arizona, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Hyland is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing microservices and distributed architectures, currently contributing remotely at Atomic from Queen Creek, AZ. He has led technical teams at American Express and SmartRent and brings a practical blend of backend engineering and systems thinking across enterprise and startup environments. Nathan is an active open-source contributor to well-known projects like stripe-go, where he improved concurrency safety and serialization semantics—work that reflects a careful attention to robustness in payment-critical libraries. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he pairs deep Go and backend expertise with a history of improving reliability in high-throughput systems. Notably, his background spans roles in engineering, operations, and project management, giving him a strong cross-functional perspective on delivering production systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
data-serialization10
go10
api10
apidoc10
serialization10
concurrency9
testing9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-go
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Go library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 23 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Go library for the Stripe API. Their contributions include implementing more robust handling of pointer values within the form encoding logic, ensuring proper serialization and deserialization of data structures. They also refined the zero-value encoding behavior and added a mutex to handle concurrent read operations, improving overall code quality and thread safety within the Stripe-go library.
gostripe-apistripe-sdkstripe
natdm/dotfile
Jul 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 138 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years
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