👋 hello, I'm nate

oss maintainer and maker of tools @ prefect

i am likely to be focusing on:

• presenting ai with data to make better choices
• building / maintaining python / LLM dev tools that do this: prefect, fastmcp, or marvin
• responding to issues, questions, discussions, review comments, aggressive reddit or hn comments
• keyboard shortcuts
• atproto
• API design

my background

Prefect (Present) - Senior Software Engineer

• Finding new and compelling ways to make use of our OSS offerings
• Channeling community feedback into all Prefect interfaces (API, SDK, MCP)
• Working with leadership to distill sane-default products from complex and varying enterprise user needs
• Proofing and maintaining fastmcp (most popular python interface to MCP)
• Building AI-powered systems to automate toil-rich internal tasks
• Pioneering use of PyO3 to do CPU-bound work in rust

Prefect - Software Engineer

• Designed and implemented a Celery-replacing asynchronous task queue to Prefect open-source and Prefect Cloud
• Contributed to upstream and downstream open-source projects like pydantic and chromadb
• Brought AI into Prefect Cloud
• Designed, implemented and managed open-source autonomous systems like our slackbot

SLATE (acq by Prefect, Oct 2021) - Data Engineer

• Built custom IaC, ETL, and data modeling for customers (dbt, snowflake, databricks, duckdb, prefect, etc)
• Translated business logic from leaders into maintainable / transparent data pipelines
• Implemented supporting web-apps for customers to interact with their data

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education

• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
  • Major: Chemical Engineering
  • Minor: Physics
  • Alumnus: August 2020

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detailed contribution breakdown