Nathan Wilcox
Chief Engineer at Least Authority, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Wilcox is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Engineer at Least Authority in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines deep backend and release automation expertise with a security-conscious mindset honed during his time as a security consultant at iSEC Partners. Nathan has hands-on open-source cred, notably improving release automation and test infrastructure for the well-known Zcash project by writing Python tooling and refining build and changelog workflows. He focuses on operationalizing secure, repeatable release processes and bridging engineering practice with auditability. Colleagues rely on him to tame complex build pipelines and make releases predictable in high-stakes, privacy-focused software. His profile suggests a pragmatic engineer who prefers solving reliability and security problems behind the scenes rather than seeking the spotlight.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
git10
release-management10
python10
automated-build10
cicd9
testing9
bash8
debian8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
zcash/zcash
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Zcash - Internet Money
Role in this project:
Backend & Automation Engineer
Backend & Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 8 reviews, 53 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on developing and automating the release process for the Zcash project. Their contributions include creating a Python-based script (`make-release.py`) for versioning, testing, and managing the build process. They also implemented infrastructure changes like updating the Debian changelog, generating release notes, and modifying the build system for the release branch. Furthermore, they updated and improved test infrastructure.
zcash
nathan-at-least/git-clone-canonical
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Clone git repositories into a local path derived from the URL.
Contributions:1 release, 15 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
repositoriesderivednodejsgit-guigit-clone
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