Nolan Barth is a senior software engineer with roughly a decade of experience designing high-throughput data platforms and backend systems across startups and large enterprises. He excels in Python, Spark, Polars, FastAPI, and AWS, and has repeatedly driven measurable impact—recovering over $10M through a carrier reconciliation service and helping retain a $100M+ ARR partnership. Nolan is pragmatic about engineering practices, championing very high test coverage, faster CI, and developer ergonomics (reducing pipeline verbosity by 70% and speeding tests 4x). He’s comfortable across the stack from low-level performance tuning (5x+ DB query improvements, 9x Spark runtime reductions) to production orchestration with Docker, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Based in Greater Philadelphia, he pairs technical rigor with creative pursuits—often rehearsing metal guitar gigs and running tabletop RPGs—which informs his collaborative yet independent approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
East Asian Studies, East Asian Studies at Temple University
Audio Engineering Certificate, Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering Certificate, Audio Engineering at Musicians Institute
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Nolan Barth - Senior Software Engineer at LaunchDarkly