Nathan Smyth
Lead Software Engineer at MongoDB
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Smyth is a Lead Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building scalable products, currently leading engineering efforts at MongoDB after progressing through senior and staff roles there since 2018. He combines strong systems and backend expertise with practical mobile and frontend experience from earlier roles using Cordova, Ionic and TypeScript, and has applied functional programming in production (Haskell) and research (Scala static analysis). Nathan has shipped across startups and enterprise environments, from market-driven Android apps and concierge-delivery prototypes to core database platform work, demonstrating comfort at both rapid iteration and large-scale codebases. He brings hands-on leadership—mentoring engineers and driving technical direction—while keeping a developer’s focus on shipping reliable, maintainable software. A background engaging directly with investors and scaling static analysis tools hints at both product intuition and a taste for complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (57)
nix10
atlas10
linux10
react-table10
nixos10
datatable10
charting10
infrastructure10
nixpkgs10
excel10
grid10
pagination10
golang10
filtering10
mongodb-atlas10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-js/react-leaflet-heatmap-layer
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
A custom layer for heatmaps in react-leaflet
Contributions:24 PRs, 35 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 10 months
heatmapreact-leaflet
jarjee/nixpkgs
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:45 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
nixosnix-packages
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