# Nathaniel Taylor

> Math, Physics, and Technology Enthusiast

Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nathanieltaylor1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Ivalua
Jan 2023 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ The Trade Desk
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Ventura, CA
Large scale cloud computing, full stack engineering

### Data Coordinator @ The Trade Desk
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Ventura, CA
Data collection, data munging and mining, development of a variety of software tools including web scrapers, natural language processing, extract-transform-load related tools, website/ web application development and maintenance.

### Physics Department Teaching Assistant @ Westmont College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Westmont College
Teaching Assistant for: 
1. General Physics 
2. Modern Physics 
3. Differential Equations 
4. Mathematical Physics
 
   -Worked through problem sets
   -Led help sessions 
   -Privately tutored students

### Racial Equality and Justice Core Leader @ Westmont College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA
-Organized and co-led campus discussion and dialogue groups
-Planned and carried out events focusing on racial issues

### Research Fellow @ Westmont College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA
National Science Foundation Grant # PHY-1101745
Researched in two locations:
1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University (NSCL), MI
2. Department of Physics, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
-Assisted in setting up a local detector array
-Developed an event un-packer
-Manipulated and filtered data to identify specific isotopes
-Assisted in running an experiment examining a key reaction in the rp-process at the NSCL
-Collaborated with research teams, both local and national

### NSF-funded Research Assistant @ Westmont College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Researched in two locations:
1. National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University (NSCL), MI
2. Department of Physics, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA                	
-Calibrated scintillators and gas-filled detectors
-Manipulated and filtered data to identify specific isotopes
-Collaborated with research teams, both local and national
-Set up an experiment at the NSCL

### Software Engineering Intern @ AppFolio Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Goleta, CA
Developed internal Rails app now used by the Tech Support Team
-Used Pivotal Tracker’s API to extend its functionality
-Provided visuals, trends and filters to help analyze requests related to technical problems
Developed Ruby gem for sorting and displaying various statistics


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Physics (B.S.) & Mathematics (B.A.)
Westmont College

### Santa Barbara High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nathanieletaylor

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Last updated: 2026-04-05