# Nate Smith > Amorphous Digital Entity Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/natesmith I have been trading code for money since 2006. I've seen Flash applications on fire off the shoulder of Dreamwoven HTML. I wrote Perl when it was hip. I made advertising code run 5x as fast by corrupting my soul with forbidden Javascript engine secrets. I prostrated before the divine face of cryptography until a gnostic moment struck me with paranoia. I was once paged 27 times in 24 hours welding the rusted out plumbing of a banking app written by MBAs who thought a half understood Django tutorial would lead them to a financial revolution. I ported the Haskell standard library to CoffeeScript and all these years later still don't know if I was joking. I cut poetry out of the past to let the future spill out. I mined a hole in the great living carcass of the internet and filled it with friends. I've been in the tech industry a long time and have lost all ability to fake enthusiasm for technocratic corporate life. I see our professional world for what it is: vast vats of venture capital snake oil stirred by petty tyrants. I am the co-author of the GitHub CLI, gh. I founded https://tilde.town . ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Internet Archive Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading engineering for Internet Archive Scholar ### Senior Application Developer @ GitHub Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Venmo Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Venmo Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon Area Senior Python developer at Venmo working on platform maintainability, performance, and feature work. ### Software Developer @ Puppet Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Portland, OR I contribute work to both Puppet Enterprise and our open source tools on the Puppet Server team. I work almost exclusively in Clojure with some Java and Ruby thrown in. ### Lead Software Developer @ Cox Media Group digital Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Atlanta, GA I developed Django and Javascript. Focused mainly on performance work. Optimized ad delivery system and general asset loading. Implemented custom database routing system. ### Web Application Developer @ Summersault website development Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Develop database driven web programming projects. Perform feature work, maintenance updates, and documentation work on existing projects. ### Student Programmer @ Earlham College Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 I was a programmer in the Earlham College Computer Science Database Interface applied group. I was responsible for updating and maintaining Earlham's in-house developed large course registration service, WebDB. ### IT Director / Web Developer @ WECI Radio Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 I was the "Computer person" at WECI as a student worker. I designed and launched WECI's new web presence and helped get their internet radio streaming up and running. I was the technical support contact for the office computers. ### Pre-Professional Intern @ IBM Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 I was an intern in the z/VM Director department. I designed and developed an open source powered web application for mainframe monitoring capable of giving real-time health statistics on hundreds of Linux virtual machines. ### Web Development Intern @ Mid-Hudson Library System Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 I implemented HTML, CSS, and PHP solutions for midhudson.org as well as dozens of member libraries in the Hudson Valley region. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Computer Science Earlham College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nate-smith-5a1196b - Website: https://tilde.town/~vilmibm - Website: https://github.com/vilmibm --- Source: https://flows.cv/natesmith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/natesmith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01