Nathan Silverman
Senior Software Engineer at Pyka
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Silverman is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building flight test and embedded systems, currently based in Boulder, Colorado and leading software efforts at Pyka. He progressed from intern to senior engineer through hands-on roles integrating avionics, telemetry, and flight software for autonomous aircraft, and has a background in solar vehicle telemetry from the University of Michigan Solar Car Team. Nathan combines multidisciplinary problem-solving with practical field testing experience, shipping robust systems that blend firmware, data telemetry, and test infrastructure. His career includes work through an acquisition (Cosmic AES to Kratos), reflecting experience in regulated, defense-adjacent environments. Known for tackling high-impact, technically challenging problems, he brings both system-level thinking and low-level debugging grit. Outside core duties, he’s drawn to projects that require creative cross-domain solutions and rapid iteration between hardware and software.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Burlingame High School
Github Skills (7)
open-access10
jekyll9
scientific-computing8
computer-science8
science8
open-source7
scheduling2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nzsilverman/climbing_carpools
Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
University of Michigan Climbing Club Carpool Scheduling Software
Contributions:1 release, 118 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 3 months
schedulingmichiganuniversity-of-michiganclimbingcarpool
nzsilverman/dotfiles
Nov 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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