Nathan Leiby
Staff Software Engineer at Brisk Teaching
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Leiby is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years building and scaling reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, and authentication platforms that serve millions of users. He has deep domain experience in education, climate, and civic tech, and a track record of growing engineering teams and instituting best practices to turn strategic technical initiatives into measurable business outcomes. At Clever he led identity and analytics work—including backend contributions to SAML tooling—before moving into product and infrastructure roles at growth-stage startups like Stable Auto and now Brisk Teaching. Nathan blends hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership, favoring pragmatic, production-first solutions and strong operational observability. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard and often bridges the gap between complex protocols and easy-to-use developer interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Harvard University
Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
xml10
nodejs10
coffeescript10
saml10
user-authentication9
javascript9
authentication9
testing8
nltk6
svg6
casperjs6
launchd6
python6
numpy6
sublime-text6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Clever/saml2
Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Node module to abstract away the complexities of the SAML protocol behind an easy to use interface.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on developing the backend logic for the `saml2` Node module. Their contributions include stubbing out service provider and identity provider classes, creating methods like `create_login_url` and `assert`. They also made changes to the build and test configurations and added debug statements for SAML XML response handling.
idpnode-modulesaml2identity-providersaml
Clever/optimus
Jun 2014 - May 2017
Concurrently extract, transform, and load tables of data in Go
Contributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 11 months
golangconcurrentlytransform
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