# Nathan Selvidge > Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nathanselvidge Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience leading the design and development of fullstack software solutions from initial concept to deployment. Hands-on Leader focused on working with diverse, cross-functional teams to create new user-focused experiences while increasing quality, performance, and reliability at scale. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Braintrust Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI @ Webflow Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led a 7-person engineering team to design and build an AI Coding Assistant that enables users to generate and iteratively refine full-stack web applications through natural language and LLM-driven code generation. - Engineered Webflow Cloud’s full-stack hosting platform, deploying applications on Cloudflare Workers with scalable, reliable infrastructure for modern web app development. - Improved reliability and safety of LLM-powered features by building evaluation frameworks, LLM observability, and tracing systems that raised output quality and user trust in AI Features. ### CTO/Co-Founder @ Resonate Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States - Independently architected, developed, and launched Resonate, a fullstack GPT-4 powered user research assistant that instantly transcribes interviews and creates and shares interview highlights/snippets. - Architected and developed the system using React frontend, Node.js, GraphQL API, and a Python Flask service with fully automated CI/CD and observability and 99.99% uptime. - Developed features to enable users to tag user interviews during Zoom calls in real-time and automatically identify patterns across multiple user interviews by continuously aggregating common tags and themes with GPT-4; reducing required manual working time for end users from weeks to minutes. ### Software Engineer @ Finley Technologies, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Redesigned the frontend architecture of a React application using an internal frontend architecture to enable the development and deployment of 2 new web dashboards/portals for new customer segments while maximizing reusability. - Streamlined communication between implementation teams and legal domain experts and reduced time to launch for new customers by 20% by creating a Domain Specific Language for coding complex debt financing contracts. ### Senior Software Engineer/Engineering Manager @ Atlassian Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States - Doubled multimillion-dollar MRR by leading Trello’s 7-person funnel expansion team through monetization projects that introduced a limit on the number of boards for free teams and prevented teams from adding free guests on >1 board. - Built patented A/B testing deployment and analysis infrastructure consisting of libraries for bucketing and tracking users across all Trello clients, an event measurement system, and a Python analysis service that has been used to deploy and analyze hundreds of A/B tests across Trello’s fullstack; becoming the de-facto method for releasing new features. - Reduce time to first render by 80% in BitBucket by overhauling the performance of large pull requests with a 4-person team ### Software Engineer @ FunnelEnvy Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Millbrae, CA - Developed a new system for 8+ customers including VMWare that handled millions of daily requests, tracked and deployed personalized experiences, and allowed users to run A/B tests on user segments to measure the effectiveness of personalization campaigns with a 3-person development team using Node.js, MongoDB, and Sails.js - Created Optimizely-CLI, a standardized open-source tool used internally and by hundreds of external teams to develop Optimizely experiments for client teams. ### Web Developer @ Power Brands, LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Van Nuys, California Worked with dozens of clients to design, develop, and launch brand websites and landing pages while maintaining 100+ websites including the main Power Brands website to generate new leads using HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics University of Southern California ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nselvidge - Portfolio: http://www.nathanselvidge.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/nathanselvidge JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nathanselvidge/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10