Nathaniel Stemen
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Stemen is a versatile software engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience building full‑stack features and improving developer tooling. Trained in mathematics and physics at NYU, he brings a curiosity-driven approach to problems—equally at home refactoring front-end autocomplete in Overleaf as enhancing benchmark infrastructure and documentation for the quantum error‑mitigation toolkit Mitiq. His contributions span user-facing UX improvements and back-end parameterization, showing attention to both usability and reproducible measurement. Colleagues rely on him to make complex systems more accessible through clearer docs and thoughtful code changes, and he pairs playful experimentation with pragmatic delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Physics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Physics at New York University
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Github Skills (24)
error-reporting10
javascript10
benchmark10
coffeescript10
python10
autocomplete10
benchmarking10
latex10
front-end-development10
error-handling10
documentation10
ane8
cirq8
lan8
react7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
unitaryfoundation/mitiq
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Mitiq is an open source toolkit for implementing error mitigation techniques on most current intermediate-scale quantum computers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:867 reviews, 90 commits, 452 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily focused on enhancing the documentation and improving the usability of the Mitiq toolkit. This involved adding detailed examples, creating new documentation files, and updating existing content to be more accessible to users. Furthermore, the user made significant changes to the benchmark infrastructure, including the addition of parameterization, ensuring the ZNE examples are working and incorporating more sophisticated measurement parameters. In addition to fixing formatting issues, the user was co-author on multiple code changes.
computersprototypequantum-programmingqiskitintermediate
overleaf/overleaf
Aug 2017 - Aug 2021
A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:212 commits, 3 issues in 4 years
Contributions summary:Nathaniel implemented and refactored features within the Overleaf LaTeX editor. This included adding autocomplete commands for LaTeX, merging and modifying code related to the auto-complete and snippet managers, and addressing code style issues. They also added package-aware autocomplete functionality and file completion features. These changes were focused on improving the editor's functionality and user experience.
latex-editorweb-basedlatexcollaborativeeditor
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