Nathan Zender
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Zender is a Principal Automation Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack applications, secure platforms, and DevOps tooling across regulated and enterprise environments. He blends hands-on backend development (Java/Scala/Spring) with cloud-native infrastructure and security practices, having led platform and SSDLC work in bio-manufacturing and healthcare. Nathan has driven migrations from legacy monoliths to microservices, built developer-onboarding platforms, and automated resilient schedulers and token-security improvements in notable open-source projects like Micronaut and db-scheduler. He favors pragmatic, auditable solutions—using AWS CDK/Pulumi, GitLab/GitHub pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code—to deliver velocity without sacrificing compliance. Based in Ohio, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with leadership across teams and a knack for translating complex failure modes into robust retry and backoff strategies. An underappreciated thread in his work is a long-running focus on making security and developer experience first-class citizens of platform design.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
kotlin10
task-management10
scheduled-tasks10
groovy10
micronaut10
jdbc10
java10
scheduler10
security10
javas10
scheduling10
sched10
task-scheduler10
spring-boot10
oauth10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
micronaut-projects/micronaut-core
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
Micronaut Application Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 18 PRs, 49 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving the Micronaut security features, addressing OAuth compliance issues by modifying the `access_token` and `refresh_token` naming conventions to include underscores. They also worked on multi-language support within documentation and example code for creating client applications. Additionally, the user contributed to updating test suites to align with multi-language documentation and correct potential Kotlin test errors.
micronautmicroservicesjavakotlingroovy
kagkarlsson/db-scheduler
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Persistent cluster-friendly scheduler for Java
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 26 commits, 3 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `db-scheduler` project, focusing on enhancements to the failure handling mechanisms. They implemented features such as a max retries failure handler and an exponential backoff strategy, improving the scheduler's resilience. In addition, the user added new examples, updated the README and integrated custom exceptions to handle various error scenarios.
javaschedulertask-schedulerjob-schedulerjdbc
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