Nathan Tornquist
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Tornquist is a hands-on engineering leader and Staff Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience building scalable web, native, and cloud systems. He has led cross-functional teams and owned cloud platforms and data processing pipelines at Auterion and SkinIO, balancing architecture, product strategy, and day-to-day engineering. At Google he focuses on developer onboarding, platform developer experience, and high-throughput data processing and reporting. Nathan blends full-stack fluency—from iOS and frontend frameworks to backend services and AWS infra—with a penchant for pragmatic migrations and sustainability. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he’s updated core validation libraries in community projects, showing attention to compatibility and long-term maintenance. Based in Chicago, he brings a rare combination of startup scrappiness and large-scale platform leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Purdue University
English
Stackoverflow
6,528reputation
1.4mreached
26answers
91questions
Github Skills (14)
hapi10
javascript10
joi10
data-validation10
nodejs9
testing8
input-filtering6
textbox6
wpf6
mask6
multi-touch6
android6
wpf-controls6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hapi-swagger/hapi-swagger
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
A Swagger interface for hapi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on updating the project to use the latest Joi syntax, a core library for data validation. Their commits involved modifying code across multiple files, including test cases and example files, to reflect these syntax changes. They also made minor corrections to examples and internal references within the project's codebase.
swaggerhapi
Tornquist/qmk_firmware
Nov 2016 - Feb 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 4 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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