Developer, Founder, and Baker

Nathan J.

I'm a software developer based in Chicago, Illinois.
I'm the founder of Nestingbird, HOA management software for self-managed communities and property managers. I love baking sourdough.

Building

NestingBird

HOA management for self-managed buildings and property managers

Location

Chicago, IL

Open to work

Stack

Rails PostgreSQL Hotwire Solid Queue Stripe Docker Grafana Fly.io Claude Code

Also

Associate Faculty

Northwestern Kellogg

Open Source

Sage

Natural language reporting for Rails
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Strong

  • ✓ Full-stack Rails
  • ✓ Shipping & Execution
  • ✓ Technical Leadership
  • ✓ Developer Experience
  • ✓ B2B Products
  • ✓ Building initial product offerings (establishing a foundation)
  • ✓ Refactoring & pivoting a product

Moderate

  • ○ Data Engineering
  • ○ DevOps & Infrastructure (comfortable with Docker, Fly.io, observability - not deep on Kubernetes)
  • ○ Team Building

Gaps (I'll Tell You)

  • ✕ Consumer Product
  • ✕ Mobile Development
  • ✕ Large-scale Distributed Systems (experienced with thousands/tens of thousands of users, not millions)