Nathan Palmer
Chief Technical Advisor at Uptick
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Palmer is a seasoned software leader and founder with 16+ years of experience building high-scale web platforms and teams, currently advising Uptick as Chief Technical Advisor on an e-commerce ad tech platform. He co-founded and scaled CrowdOx from a tablet-friendly checkout idea into a global crowdfunding platform handling hundreds of thousands of orders per month and successfully exited via acquisition. Previously he led engineering at Spruce Media operating multi–data center systems processing billions of transactions monthly and built Dev, QA, and Design teams across distributed locations. Nathan pairs hands-on backend development (including Rails compatibility work on notable open-source projects like jsonapi-resources) with strategic product and business acumen. He started programming on an Apple IIe at age six and launched his first computer business at 14, a background that fuels his practical, growth-focused approach to solving complex technical and operational problems. Based in Washington, DC, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning large-scale technical challenges into revenue-driving products.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BIT Computer Software, BIT Computer Software at American InterContinental UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Weber State University
Github Skills (6)
ruby-rails10
rails10
json-api10
ruby10
url-routing9
testing8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
JSONAPI-Resources/jsonapi-resources
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
A resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON:API compliant servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to updating the `jsonapi-resources` library to be compatible with Rails 5. Their work involved modifying mime types, adjusting controller actions, refactoring routing, and updating parameter handling to align with the new Rails version. They also integrated changes from a master branch and updated test fixtures. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining and adapting the library for compatibility with the Rails framework.
rails
apsure/restpack_serializer
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
pagingserializationserializerjsonfiltering
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