Nathan Wenneker
Senior Engineer at Shopify
Greater Colorado Springs Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Wenneker is a Senior Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, currently shaping commerce infrastructure at Shopify. He blends a mathematician's analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering, specializing in Ruby on Rails, SQL-driven data modeling, and complex backend architecture while also shipping React/Redux front-ends. Nathan has progressed through progressive technical leadership roles—lead and staff engineer positions across fintech and SaaS—delivering reliable systems, refactors, and performance tuning (including elasticsearch optimization). He favors simple, elegant code but is comfortable applying clever solutions when necessary, regularly moving between designing complex SQL queries and pruning legacy Rails code. Based in Colorado Springs, he values craftsmanship and family, and cites gratitude and purpose as drivers behind his sustained, productive career. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, steady execution, and the kind of deep debugging that reveals non-obvious systemic fixes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Texas Christian University
Github Skills (39)
mvc10
rails10
redux10
ruby10
geocoding10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
mongoid9
redux-toolkit9
flux-architecture9
react9
state-management9
capybara7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:3 commits in 11 months
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
alexreisner/geocoder
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Complete Ruby geocoding solution.
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
geocoding-objectsmongoidgeocodingrubygeocoding-requests
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