Nathan Ziebart
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Ziebart is a software engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems and consumer-facing platforms, currently a Member of Technical Staff at xAI in Palo Alto. He progressed through senior engineering and principal roles at Robinhood where he led architecture and delivery for high-throughput services. Earlier work as a tech lead at Palantir focused on distributed caching, event-driven architectures, and transactional databases (AtlasDB), showing deep systems expertise. Nathan cut his teeth shipping production products at startups and YC-backed teams, including building a lending platform as engineer #4 and an early VoIP app that was acquired. He combines hands-on implementation skills across backend, mobile, and infrastructure with a proven track record of taking complex, reliability-sensitive features from design to production. Based in the Bay Area and grounded in a CS degree from University of Tennessee, he favors pragmatic engineering that scales.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (57)
distributed-tracing10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
redis9
cassandra9
observability9
java9
redis-client9
redis-cluster9
kotlin8
database8
profiler8
distributed-database8
go8
profiling8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robinhoodmarkets/py-spy
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Sampling profiler for Python programs
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 1 day
sampling-profilerpythonprogramspython3python-programs
nziebart/atlasdb
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:72 branches in 1 day
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