Nathaniel Le Sage
Software Developer at Wikimedia Foundation
Iowa City-Cedar Rapids Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Le Sage is a versatile software developer with over a decade of experience delivering web, desktop, embedded, and ML-enabled systems across startups and large engineering organizations. He combines hands-on backend and embedded expertise—working with Node/Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, C++, Qt, and CI/CD pipelines—with practical ML tooling, having built scraping, LLM conversion and embedding services as well as decision-tree and autoencoder models for finance and geoscience projects. At John Deere he shipped high-coverage (>90%) unit-tested embedded licensing software for multiple product lines, and at Novo he moved quickly in a lean startup to productionize back-end and ML components. Active in open knowledge, he’s contributed to Wikipedia for more than a decade and brings strong scripting, data-processing and performance optimization skills (memoization, joblib parallelism) to speed up workflows. Based in the Iowa City–Cedar Rapids area, he thrives in small teams where fast iteration and pragmatic engineering meet careful testing and reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of Iowa
English
Github Skills (51)
electricity10
llama10
energy10
utility10
data-science9
sustainability9
ansys9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
vision-and-language9
deep-learning9
renewable-energy9
open-data9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wheelspawn/Python-Neural-Networks
Apr 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:81 commits, 79 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
Wheelspawn/Computer-Programs
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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