Nathan Beittenmiller
Grand Prairie,TX
Summary
Innovative Director of Engineering with over 20 years developing and applying new technologies to deliver exceptional final products. Combines technical engineering capability with effective management techniques. Dedicated to driving rapid, advanced product development through meticulous oversight of junior staff and hands-on participation.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Consultant
Owl
10.2022 - 06.2024
- Served as subject matter expert on existing systems and transferred knowledge to full time staff
- Performed maintenance tasks associated with customer migrations to Kubernetes as well as custom analytics API
- Assisted in bug fixing and troubleshooting of production issues
Director of Technology
Dragonfly
10.2022 - 07.2023
- Led and managed a team of a dozen employees in engineering, product management, and IT functions, resulting in increased productivity and job satisfaction
- Developed and maintained multiple internal services using Amazon SPAPI, Bank of America, PayPal, Shopify, and more
- Set and executed general Tech strategy for the entire company, ensuring alignment with business goals. Defined KPIs and worked with employees to set appropriate goals
- Served as primary decision-maker for internal technology spending, creating budget guidelines to reduce waste and decrease unnecessary upgrades.
Director of Engineering
Owl
04.2021 - 10.2022
- Managed a fully remote team of over a dozen developers and QA, improving release predictability and quality utilizing Agile processes like scrum and Kanban
- Oversaw the transition from EC2-based shared application to Kubernetes clusters with full tenant isolation
- Designed and implemented custom reports for customers, enabling deeper analytics and insights into patient care and platform effectiveness
- Oversaw assignment of engineering tasks by creating frameworks free of wasteful redundancy and unnecessary dependencies.
Senior Application Development Engineer
Owl
10.2019 - 04.2021
- Led the migration of existing applications to AWS Lambda-based microservices and Python
- Implemented a user management system based on Django REST Framework, Aurora Postgres, and AWS Lambda
- Designed and implemented an analytics API capable of handling millions of records, with future expansion planned for a full data warehouse solution based on Redshift.
- Managed and coordinated off-shore contractors as needed, resulting in increased satisfaction from stakeholders and decreasing contract costs by decreasing overtime required
Developer III
Cox Media Group
09.2018 - 10.2019
- Transitioned existing applications from Python on EC2 to TypeScript on AWS Lambda
- Trained other team members on TypeScript and AWS tools.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
Performance Engineer
Cox Media Group
06.2016 - 09.2018
- Managed New Relic configuration across the organization and designed Insights dashboards to improve performance monitoring
- Created synthetic tests, integrated with Slack and PagerDuty for alerting during critical incidents.
- Reviewed scalability, performance and load balancing of each application.
Software Developer
Cox Media Group
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Maintained and improved shared services for the company's CMS
- Acted as the primary subject matter expert for the weather API and related systems.
- Implemented emergency weather emails using SalesForce Python SDK. Modified SalesForce SDK to improve email sending functionality and correct errors in XML parsing.
Software Engineer
SoftLayer, an IBM Company
05.2013 - 05.2014
- Added significant functionality to the SoftLayer Python bindings and command line tool
- Worked on internal projects interacting with OpenStack, focusing on Horizon and Nova.
- Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
Software Architect
HRsmart
05.2007 - 05.2013
- Responsible for architecture and technical design of the company's enterprise software platform
- Initiated and led project to reimplement underlying product software using state-of-the-art object-oriented framework
- Conducted weekly developer trainings using Open Space methodology, increasing developer participation and satisfaction.
- Served as matrix manager for all developers at the company
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN05.2001
Skills
- Leadership and Team Management
- Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban
- REST API Development and Integration
- Healthcare and Compliance (HIPAA, HITRUST)
- Python, Django
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Back-End Web Development
- Engineering Management
- SQL (MySQL, Postgres)
- NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis)
- Research and Development
- Organizational Development
Timeline
Consultant
Owl
10.2022 - 06.2024
Director of Technology
Dragonfly
10.2022 - 07.2023
Director of Engineering
Owl
04.2021 - 10.2022
Senior Application Development Engineer
Owl
10.2019 - 04.2021
Developer III
Cox Media Group
09.2018 - 10.2019
Performance Engineer
Cox Media Group
06.2016 - 09.2018
Software Developer
Cox Media Group
06.2014 - 06.2016
Software Engineer
SoftLayer, an IBM Company
05.2013 - 05.2014
Software Architect
HRsmart
05.2007 - 05.2013
Bachelor of Science -
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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