Zeke Nierenberg
Staff Software Engineer at Cedar
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZeke Nierenberg is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building product-focused systems and scaling teams across startups and healthcare tech in Chicago. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership from founding two startups and serving as Head of Technology—building everything from GraphQL APIs and design systems to CI pipelines and conversational automation for freight. At One Medical, Abridge, and now Cedar he’s applied that full-stack pragmatism to mission-driven products, often shifting between individual contributor and management roles as needs demanded. He’s passionate about creating “joyful semantic systems” that improve people and places, and has a background teaching and hiring engineers that sharpens his mentorship and hiring instincts. Notably, his career includes early work making bot-building accessible and applying genetic programming to chemistry, reflecting a knack for making complex tech human-centered.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science and Biology, BA, Computer Science and Biology at Hampshire College
French
Stackoverflow
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381kreached
96answers
16questions
Github Skills (200)
vector-graphics10
api10
viewport10
nodejs10
mongodb10
html5-canvas10
odm10
react-fiber10
intersection-observer10
renderer10
coverage10
knife10
bull9
cascading9
browser9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zekenie/async-await-presentation
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:65 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
zekenie/dmv
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:67 commits, 20 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 year 1 month
expressjsauthenticationexpresspermissionsnodejs
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