Director Of Product Design And Architecture at Phoenix Integration
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Nathan Sharp is a seasoned software architect and product design leader with over 20 years of experience building engineering design software frameworks and commercial products such as the ModelCenter family. As Director of Product Design and Architecture at Phoenix Integration, he blends deep technical fluency with business-minded architecture decisions informed by Carnegie Mellon SEI training. He has led product development end-to-end—translating complex model-based systems engineering needs into reliable, production-grade tooling for engineering teams. Nathan also contributes to open-source quality through focused QA and test automation work on projects like Microsoft’s ClearScript, improving error reporting and exception handling in scripting engines. Based in Blacksburg and grounded in a BS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech, he pairs long-term institutional knowledge with a practical, test-driven approach to software robustness. Colleagues rely on him for turning intricate domain requirements into maintainable architectures that ship.
A library for adding scripting to .NET applications. Supports V8 (Windows, Linux, macOS) and JScript/VBScript (Windows).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the ClearScript library by adding and modifying test cases. They fixed bugs related to error reporting in VBScript, specifically addressing the inclusion of stack traces and exception details. Furthermore, the user added tests to cover exception handling scenarios, including cases where the debugger is not available, and implemented a feature to unwrap `TargetInvocationException` messages for more informative error output. Their work centered on the VBScript engine and involved modifications to both test files and core engine components.
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