Nathan Smith
Founder & Managing Partner at FluxCapacity
Salida, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Smith is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 18+ years driving turnarounds, platform modernizations, and rapid team scaling for PE-backed companies and growth-stage startups. He founded FluxCapacity and runs FluxCTO to provide retained, embedded fractional CTO leadership that takes executive ownership of technology strategy, architecture, and delivery without full-time overhead. Nathan’s hands-on track record includes multi-million-dollar exits, 45%+ infrastructure cost reductions, 750% team growth in hyper-scale, and recent wins at Mecum Auctions (40% cost cut, 77% performance gain, 99.99% uptime). He blends product-minded engineering with M&A technical due diligence, org design, and leadership coaching to align technology to EBITDA and investor outcomes. Comfortable rebuilding teams and modernizing stacks (React/Next.js, Node, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Salesforce), he prefers high-impact retained engagements where he can own results rather than provide advisory reports. An entrepreneur at heart, he scales both teams and processes while remaining hands-on in architecture and execution.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
Github Skills (51)
backdrop10
drupal10
sage10
moodle10
wordpress10
laravel10
xdebug10
craftcms10
php10
trellis10
virtualbox10
typo310
nodejs10
acorn10
mariadb9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alkymst/ddev-ui
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
An ALPHA user Interface that provides a graphical way of interacting with DDEV Local
Contributions:53 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
ddev-localgraphicaluser-interfaceddev
alkymst/portfolio
Dec 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 push in 1 year 2 months
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