Nolan Blankenau
Founding Senior Software Engineer at BootLoop
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNolan Blankenau is a founding senior software engineer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building products from prototype to production. He has led engineering at multiple startups—including architecting a cross-platform social app as CTO at SWOT and building a Cloud GPU marketplace at Shadeform—while also shipping security-minded APIs and web apps at Microsoft. Nolan blends full-stack craft (Flutter/Dart, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS) with product instincts informed by hands-on user research and beta testing. He has experience scaling small teams, establishing CI/CD pipelines, and turning single-person projects into collaborative engineering orgs. Beyond engineering, Nolan’s background includes venture analysis and STEM outreach, giving him a rare mix of product, business, and community-minded perspectives. He’s motivated by sustainable, impactful technology and repeatedly chooses high-leverage roles where he can both build and lead.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Kansas - School of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at SELF Program - University of Kansas
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
react2
stock2
google-trends1
natural-language-processing1
language-processing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Elden123/BetterWay
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
bstonebraker96/ImageProcessing
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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