Nathaniel Woodthorpe
Technical Advisor at Canadian Digital Service (CDS) / Service numérique canadien (SNC)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Woodthorpe is a technical advisor and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, APIs, and product-focused engineering teams. He has shipped mission-critical services at Stripe and Shopify, contributed backend features and tests to the widely used GitHub Classroom, and now leads an AI-driven product for rock climbing gyms while advising at the Canadian Digital Service. Comfortable across Ruby/Rails, API design, and cloud infrastructure, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring and program leadership. Notably, he has built systems that supported millions of daily database transactions and thousands of concurrent users, reflecting a strong operational focus alongside product innovation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Software Development, Bachelor of Science Software Development at Western Governors UniversityBachelor of Computer Science (incomplete), Bachelor of Computer Science (incomplete) at University of Waterloo
English
Github Skills (11)
rails10
githubclassroom10
backend10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
rspec9
api-rest9
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
github-education-resources/classroom
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 119 PRs, 308 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the GitHub Classroom application, focusing on user and organization management features. They implemented features to remove users from organizations and manage user assignments. The user also added unit tests to verify the correctness of the code changes, improving the reliability of the application. These contributions involved modifications to controllers, models, and views within the application.
access-controlrubyrailsoauth
d12/Load-Balancer-Golang
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
A simple load balancer / reverse proxy written in GoLang.
Contributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
golangload-balancerreverse-proxy
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