Nathan Rijksen
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarNathan Rijksen is an engineering manager and hands-on technical leader with 14 years in software and a decade leading fully remote teams, currently based in Chilliwack, BC. He specializes in developer tooling, build infrastructure, and transforming single-expert bottlenecks into self-service platforms that scale across engineering organizations. At ActiveState he progressed from IC to people leader, shipping a universal cross-platform package manager, introducing dedicated QA to cut patch releases ~90%, and building diagnostic and AI/ML-driven automation to reduce troubleshooting effort. Nathan is pragmatic about hiring and mentorship—his teams have had zero turnover and produced multiple promotions into management—while also keeping close to the code by designing static analysis, LSP integration, and high-performance backend systems. He brings a track record of improving observability and release velocity simultaneously, and an unusual focus on turning complex diagnostic data into consumable products that enable broader engineering autonomy.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
3,444reputation
350kreached
62answers
54questions
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
perl10
cpp10
nodejs10
komodo-edit10
activestate10
xul10
komodo-ide10
php10
programming-language10
python10
windows10
docker-desktop10
ruby10
komodo10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
Naatan/XenAuction
Jun 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:123 commits, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
Komodo/komodo-color-schemes
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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