Nathaniel T
Software Development Engineer II - Payments at Amazon
Round Rock, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel T is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and payments infrastructure at Amazon, currently a Software Development Engineer II focused on Payments. He brings broad language fluency—C/C++, Java, Python, Ruby, TypeScript—and a strong foundation in test-driven development and Agile practices honed from roles at AWS and Vizrt. Nathaniel is an active OpenTelemetry contributor, having improved AWS X-Ray exporter behavior and extended the Python SDK and Lambda instrumentation, demonstrating a focus on observability and cloud-native tooling. His internship work on SageMaker GroundTruth included implementing OIDC authentication, showing early exposure to enterprise security and scalable ML platforms. Comfortable moving between DevOps and backend responsibilities, he has shipped collectors and Lambda layers for tracing while adding unit and performance tests to critical open-source projects. Based in Round Rock, Texas, he pairs solid engineering rigor with a habit of contributing to high-profile open-source observability projects that improve operational insight.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering minor in Mathematics at Texas A&M UniversityAssociate of Science - AS, Associate of Science - AS at Mountain View CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Duncanville High School
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python10
distributed-tracing10
aws-lambda10
exporter10
go10
sdk10
opentelemetry10
aws-xray10
exports10
testing9
twitter9
unit-testing9
performance-testing9
otel9
postman9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Create your own Lambda Layer in each OTel language using this starter code. Add the Lambda Layer to your Lambda Function to get tracing with OpenTelemetry.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 36 commits, 64 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel contributed to the project by adding and configuring OpenTelemetry processors, specifically attributes, filter, memory limiter, probabilistic sampler, resource, and span processors. They also updated and refactored the Python sample applications to align with upstream OpenTelemetry 1.3 and Python format. Furthermore, the user has been involved in updating the Lambda layer, including the OTel Java and JS versions. They also built and deployed the collector.
opentelemetrylambda-layeraws-lambdatracingobservability
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:188 reviews, 29 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK by implementing and refactoring core tracing components, including the `IdsGenerator` interface and related functionalities. Their work involved modifying the API and SDK, and integrating with various tracing formats like B3. They also addressed issues related to auto-instrumentation and performance, adding throughput tests and resource usage tests for the OTLP exporter. The user's contributions included making the SDK more extensible by implementing a namespace package and updating semantic conventions.
apicorrelationcontextpythontracecontexttracing
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