Summary
Nathan Velaborja is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-scale, cloud-native back-end systems, currently focused on distributed services at Netflix in the Seattle area. He designed and owned the AWS WorkSpaces Public API at AWS, handling over 200 million daily requests and driving region launches and pandemic-scale growth that helped the product reach billion-dollar business levels. Prior roles include migrating enterprise services to Kubernetes and creating core API libraries at Apptio, demonstrating strong service ownership from API design through CI/CD and automated testing. Nathan combines deep operational experience in throttling, auth, monitoring, and distributed job scheduling with a hands-on engineering approach to lifecycle workflows for millions of managed resources. Based in Bellevue, he pairs production-grade reliability with a history of being the first to push organizational change—such as leading a full migration to his company’s Kubernetes platform.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Washington State University
Kamiak High School
English, Spanish