# Nolan Blankenau > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nolanblankenau ## Work Experience ### Founding Senior Software Engineer @ BootLoop Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA ### Founding Software Engineer @ Shadeform (YC S23) Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Building the Cloud GPU Marketplace ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Worked on APIs and Web Apps that helped make the internet a safer place ### Co-Founder and CTO @ SWOT - See What Others Think Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 A social media platform to rank anything and everything in order to "see what others think." Share, compare, and become aware of the world's best of the best. I was brought on as a Co-Founder status CTO at SWOT to build a new Social Media Platform from scratch. I architected and built out the initial concept of the platform as a one person engineering team for the first six months. I then grew my engineering team to include two additional rockstar engineers. Together we built a cross platform mobile app deployed to a private beta. Talking with beta users, gathering data, and identifying pain points gave way to building out a continuous development pipeline to plan, build, and iterate on new features. During my time at SWOT I had the opportunity to grow as a leader, entrepreneur, project manager, and software engineer. I constantly worked with our engineers, users, designer, marketer, and CEO to align visions of the future and ensure our product could take us there. It was an exiting opportunity to learn about and lead the full Software Development Life Cycle from idea to planning, building, testing, iterating, scaling, and launching. Tech Stack: Flutter/Dart, Node.js/Express.js, PostgreSQL, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Relational Database, AWS S3, Heroku ### Venture Capital Analyst @ University Venture Fund Crossroads Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Kansas City, MO The University Venture Fund Crossroads invests in early-stage companies with a focus on Midwestern entrepreneurs. I led teams analyzing and researching investment opportunities including financials, market potential, and product/service viability for tech startups to make strategic investment decisions. ### Intern @ University Venture Fund Crossroads Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Kansas City, Missouri Area ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cargill Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Worked on a team focused on building software in React.js for Quick Serve Restaurants. ### Co-founder and Operations Director @ hub() Organization Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Lawrence, Kansas Area hub() is a STEM outreach organization aimed at coordinating programming classes for local middle schools. • Lead weekly classes for upwards of 60 middle school students • Develop and maintain contact with Middle Schools • Manage the growth of hub() to new schools ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cargill Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area • Worked on a team to develop a virtual assistant framework for chat and voice. • Developed an in-house API and CLI for training, testing, and using Natural Language Processing. • Technologies Used: Node.js, Python/Flask, Golang, Ruby/Sinatra, SQL/PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Drone.io ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Kansas - School of Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Lawrence, Kansas Area My team and I researched quantum algorithms and the emulation of quantum computers on reconfigurable hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays. Co-authored two research papers. ### Software Engineering Intern @ BK Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | 4830 Bob Billings Pkwy # 200, Lawrence, KS 66049 • Developed new features and fixed bugs in BK’s PC apps and radios (Java/C++) • Wrote automated tests in Python to test the functionality and reliability of BK radios • My team and I brought BK's Radio software testing down from one man-year to under three hours ### Web Developer @ USDA Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Manhattan, KS • Lead developer in a team of three • Created and maintained the website for an international research project ### Volunteer Web Developer @ USDA Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Manhattan, KS ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of Kansas - School of Engineering ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science SELF Program - University of Kansas ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nolan-blankenau --- Source: https://flows.cv/nolanblankenau JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nolanblankenau/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05