Nathan Walls
Lead Software Engineer at VitalSource Technologies
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Walls is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and shipping web applications and developer tooling, currently leading engineering efforts at VitalSource Technologies in Raleigh. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and automating the development-to-production pipeline—building fault-tolerant, loosely-coupled services and the Ansible/Vagrant tooling that supports reliable deployments. Nathan blends hands-on coding with team enablement, improving developer and QA workflows, coaching peers, and standardizing release processes across organizations. His background spans startups and large product teams, with practical wins such as custom load-testing and release-preparation tools that reduced deployment risk under tight timelines. He holds a BA in Journalism and Photography, an uncommon foundation that contributes to his focus on clear communication and well-designed, purpose-driven software.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, SacramentoGeneral Education, General Education at Yuba College
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
pretty-print9
rss7
ruby7
html7
macos6
tmux6
ruby-on-rails6
rest6
java6
link-to6
rubygems6
devops5
session-store5
testing4
rails4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
base10/bin-scripts
Dec 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:33 pushes, 8 branches, 1 comment in 3 years 7 months
base10/feeder
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
In progress Rails application to pull RSS feeds and build blog entries in Markdown
Contributions:60 PRs, 105 pushes, 69 branches in 1 year 9 months
rssfeedsrailsin-progressrails-application
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