Nathan Nard
Technical Lead at Midwest Insurance Company
Greater Madison Area United States
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Top SchoolNathan Nard is a Technical Lead with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently driving development and mentoring teams at a Midwest insurance firm where he led the creation of a GWT/PureMVC/PHP web application. He pairs a strong academic foundation in computer science and molecular biology with hands-on expertise in Java, PHP, SQL optimization, and CI/CD tools like Git, Gerrit, and Jenkins. Nathan has a history of independent projects—from a Sudoku GUI to an ant-colony simulation—and completed rigorous algorithm and language MOOCs, reflecting a practice-oriented approach to learning. His background in lab data-mining and awarded IGEM software work reveals an unusual blend of computational rigor and domain knowledge in biology. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic technical mentor who improves system performance, supports users, and fosters team camaraderie through leadership beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
English
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Github Skills (32)
key-value10
distributed-systems10
java10
service-discovery10
distributed-lock10
database10
apache9
consensus9
apache-zookeeper9
zookeeper9
kafka9
configuration-management9
gossip9
distributed-database9
raft9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wiscstatman/pattern-book
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
MadJugglers pattern book
Contributions:12 reviews, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 7 months
javapattern
nnard1616/UoHelsinki--Java_Programming_MOOCs
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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