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Nathan Thornton
Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Distributed Systems and Platform
nathan.thornton@example.com(555) 442-1130github.com/nathanthorntonAustin, TX
Skills
Languages: Go · Java · Python · TypeScript · SQL
Systems: Distributed systems · Event streaming (Kafka) · PostgreSQL and DynamoDB · Redis · gRPC and REST
Platform: AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · Observability (OpenTelemetry, Datadog) · CI/CD
Education
B.S. Computer SciencePurdue University, 2010 – 2014
Highlights
Speaker, KubeCon North America 2024: running a payments platform on Kubernetes without a maintenance window
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Professional, 2022
Two internal patents filed on idempotent event processing (2019, 2023)
Summary

Staff engineer with eleven years in backend and platform work for payments and logistics products. Built the order pipeline that moved a company from 3,000 to 45,000 orders an hour without a rewrite, cut infrastructure cost 34%, and runs the design review that 60 engineers ship through. Prefers a boring architecture that pages nobody.

Experience
Staff Software Engineer02/2021 – Present
Lumen Logistics Platforms · Austin, TX
  • Own the architecture of the order and fulfilment platform used by 1,100 merchants; 60 engineers across 7 teams build on it
  • Redesigned the order pipeline around Kafka and idempotent workers; capacity went from 3,000 to 45,000 orders an hour with no rewrite of the product code
  • Cut infrastructure cost 34% ($2.3 million a year) through service consolidation, autoscaling and storage tiering
  • Run the design review board; 140 design docs reviewed in three years with a median turnaround of two days
  • Brought the platform's p99 API latency from 900 ms to 180 ms and the error budget burn under 20% every quarter since 2023
Senior Software Engineer05/2017 – 01/2021
Kestrel Payments · Austin, TX
  • Built the settlement engine that reconciles $4 billion a year across 6 card networks, exactly once, audited clean four years running
  • Led the migration from a single PostgreSQL primary to sharded clusters with zero downtime and no data loss
  • Cut on-call pages 70% by introducing SLOs, alert reviews and runbooks for every service
  • Mentored 8 engineers; three promoted to senior on the strength of the work
  • Introduced contract tests across 30 services; integration failures found after deploy went from 12 a month to 1
Software Engineer07/2014 – 04/2017
Northstar Data Systems · Indianapolis, IN
  • Built ingestion services handling 2 TB a day of telemetry in Java and Kafka
  • Wrote the query API behind the customer dashboard; median response under 150 ms at 30 million rows
  • Introduced continuous deployment; releases went from every two weeks to several a day
  • Cut the nightly batch from 6 hours to 40 minutes by moving aggregation into the stream

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