# Nathaniel Hayden

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nathanielhayden

I dig deep to create a great experience for users, and I love working to improve people's lives in ways large and small. I seek impact.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineering) @ Bloomberg
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Cloud-Native Platform Engineer developing for Cloud-Native Data Processing, with Kubernetes and Spark. Development in Go and Python. Infrastructure supporting machine learning, model generation, inference, LLMs, etc.

### Senior Reliability Engineer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Hyper-growth cybersecurity startup backed by Sequoia Capital & Y Combinator, with at least a dozen clients you recognize by name. (And likely many more.) 🚀

• Sample project: rebuilt client notifications platform and architecture to be cloud-native, including a new Slack app; focus on adaptable design for present and future cloud-based, multi-channel distribution
• Customer adoption & engagement of Slack app exceeded expectations by more than 1000%; customer satisfaction greatly exceeded expectations
• Full-stack; software design; cloud architecture; engineering; testing; software development life cycle (SDLC); agile methodologies

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
• Ads Measurement team: collect & analyze billions of events per day to measure impact of ads across dozens of metrics on high availability systems
• Designed and implemented multi-team changes to on-/offline data collection & analysis pipelines to expand pin visibility & conversion performance contributing to 6x increase in number of businesses placing ads with Pinterest Q4 2020 (outlined in shareholder letter below)
• Led development of framework for analysis of server deployments with automatic failsafes to reduce rollout friction, enabling at-a-glance checks, saving > 10 hours of engineer time per week
• Ownership of Pinterest advertising tag, including leading adoption of modern JavaScript coding standards and automatic integration testing and rollout analysis, saving > 15 hours of engineer time per rollout and reducing time to deploy from multiple days to < 1 hour

### Software Engineer @ Seagull Scientific
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bellevue, Washington
• Architect and develop device drivers using C/C++ and Python. Emphasis on speed and minimizing bandwidth
• 100% perfect ratings from QA team on all projects

### International Volunteer Sabbatical @ Independent volunteer
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Self-directed volunteer sabbatical around the world in early education, adult education, English language instruction, non-profit management, elderly care, home construction/maintenance, and landscaping.

### Software Engineer @ Fred Hutch
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Greater Seattle Area
Bioconductor Core Team

• Wrote R language extensions in R and C/C++ for orders-of-magnitude speed-ups for genomic data analysis on four platforms; extensive use of profiling and benchmarking to make data-driven decisions about how to optimize
• Led modernization of C++ codebase. Also wrote tools to enforce stricter use of best practices.
• Authored Rhtslib, a C and R interface for high throughput sequence data analysis; Rhtslib is in top 5% of Bioconductor package downloads. (Over 28 million Bioconductor package downloads in 2020)
• Successfully contributed patches to R core language
• Consulted on and reviewed 3rd-party packages submitted to the Bioconductor open-source project
• Consulted on R and R/C++ integration projects for wider Fred Hutch community
• Languages / Technologies: R, C/C++, gdb, shell scripting, C, git, python, TDD

### Software Development Engineer, Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Greater Seattle Area
• Created centralized service to gather information from disparate NoSQL data stores into single location and store data in data warehouse (DW) for downstream impact analysis. Also wrote SQL extract-transform-load (ETL) logic to process incoming data on DW end
• Languages / Technologies: Java, SQL, shell scripting, git, TDD


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathanielhayden
- Website: https://natehayden.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22