Summary
Nathan Schott is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web systems and leading architecture for high-traffic consumer platforms. He led PayPal’s upstream Pay Later messaging architecture, delivering dynamic content across thousands of merchant sites and millions of daily requests. Now at Fanatics, he continues to focus on large-scale, user-facing engineering while balancing entrepreneurial ventures in e-commerce and real estate that sharpen his product and operational instincts. Hands-on from early freelance web work to internal tooling at TEKsystems, he brings full-stack fluency in JavaScript, React, and backend integration, with a knack for pragmatic solutions that survive diverse edge cases. Driven by continuous learning, family priorities, and a desire for autonomy and travel, he pairs ambition with disciplined execution. An unusual strength is blending customer-facing retail experience with deep technical leadership, enabling him to design systems with both business and user realities in mind.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Associate of Arts - AA, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh-Online Division