Nathan Smith
Engineering Manager at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Smith is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams at Meta and Amazon, currently hiring engineers for Facebook Notifications in Bellevue. He blends hands-on backend development—contributing to high-profile open-source security tooling like sigstore/fulcio—with people leadership across large-scale consumer products such as Prime Video and X-Ray. Nathan has deep experience building reliable, production-grade systems that combine machine learning, video understanding, and security-focused infrastructure. Known for pragmatic API and server improvements (configurable timeouts, CA features, request-size limits), he favors measurable, auditable changes that scale. Based in Redmond, he pairs an electrical and computer engineering background with a track record of shipping complex distributed systems across gaming, media, and cloud services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer & Electrical Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering (Dual Degree), Computer & Electrical Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering (Dual Degree) at Tennessee Technological University
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Github Skills (21)
cert10
apidoc10
certificate10
go10
api10
certificate-authority10
ca10
x509certificates10
x509certificate210
github-ci9
timeout9
githubaction-workflow9
docker8
dockers8
android-studio6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sigstore/fulcio
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Sigstore OIDC PKI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 36 commits, 43 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the Fulcio project by implementing and enhancing core backend functionalities. Their work includes making client request timeouts configurable, adding timeout options, and incorporating file-backed certificate authority features. The user also localized flags for each subcommand within the application and introduced a maximum request size limit. Additionally, the user refactored CA and CTL interfaces, and logging implementations, demonstrating a focus on API server improvements.
pki
nsmith5/fulcio
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Sigstore WebPKI
Contributions:130 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 1 month
thorfurrywebpkisigstore
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