Nathan Tippy
Chief Technology Officer at Eventum, Inc.
Greater St. Louis United States
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Top SchoolNathan Tippy is a veteran software engineer and technology leader with three decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in senior roles, currently serving as CTO and focused on Rust, DevOps, and platform engineering. He has deep expertise building cost-conscious, durable AWS infrastructures with Terraform and has led cross-zone, cross-region Jenkins and Kubernetes solutions that prioritize reliability and economics. Nathan designs scalable distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, K8s) and brings practical proficiency across serverless and traditional AWS services. He contributes to notable open-source work, including performance-focused improvements to the TechEmpower FrameworkBenchmarks Java GreenLightning implementation, and has built Rust-based actor solutions in recent projects. Known for pairing architectural vision with hands-on optimization—memory, cost, and throughput—he’s driven initiatives from exabyte-scale knowledge retrieval to developer-friendly platform tooling. Based in Greater St. Louis, he combines pragmatic engineering with a taste for modern, verifiable infrastructure solutions.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (18)
benchmark10
performance-monitor10
frameworkbenchmarks10
benchmarking10
java10
javas10
performance-analysis10
microbenchmark10
benchmarkjs10
databases9
database9
vertx9
postgresql7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 53 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the Java GreenLightning framework within the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project. Their work involved implementing new tests for the GreenLightning framework, including adding endpoints for plaintext and JSON responses, and incorporating new features to the framework. The user modified existing framework components, updated the database and pipeline to enhance the volume, and performance of the updates. They also performed version upgrades, and made code adjustments for memory optimization.
techempowerframeworkbenchmarkperformancebenchmarks
oci-pronghorn/ProtocolTestProject
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
testingspeedprotocols
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