Nathan Schwartz
Senior Software Engineer at theScore
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Schwartz is a senior software engineer based in Austin with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and leading cross-functional teams. He has driven high-impact projects at Wayfair and Point Health—improving parcel delivery times by half a day, rolling out type-safe Kafka ecosystems that handle billions of messages per day, and reducing search latency by 99.5% via an Elasticsearch redesign. Nathan combines hands-on implementation (APIs, data pipelines, CI/CD, GraphQL) with architectural leadership, repeatedly decomposing product requirements into reliable, testable systems. He’s contributed to the popular Moleculer microservices framework by implementing and hardening an AMQP transporter with thorough unit and integration tests. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise settings, he also mentors and shapes hiring and onboarding processes to scale engineering teams. Pragmatic and results-oriented, he favors contract-driven development and measurable improvements in reliability and developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering , Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
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Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
microservices-application10
nodejs10
javascript10
microservices10
amqp10
jsx10
test-automation10
react9
microservice-framework9
distributed-systems9
moleculer8
json6
browser6
hoisting6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moleculerjs/moleculer
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 72 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on implementing and testing an AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) transporter for the Moleculer microservices framework. Their primary contribution involved writing unit and integration tests to ensure the AMQP transporter's functionality, including connection management, subscription handling, and message publishing. Furthermore, they improved the AMQP transporter by allowing more options to be specified. This work aimed to provide a robust and reliable communication mechanism for Moleculer microservices.
moleculersoanode-jsframeworkmicroservice-framework
Nathan-Schwartz/CarrotStiqs
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
A declarative API for asynchronous messaging with RabbitMQ.
Contributions:1 review, 35 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 8 months
apiasynchronousdeclarativedeclarative-apiamqp
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