Nathaniel Cook Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

* Research innovative ways to interact with Automation Anywhere's RPA bots* Create POC integrations with partner software, and turn the ones that gain traction into projects* Investigate project feasibility and options for development, including language, architecture and timeline* Drive both back-end and front-end development, from code to configuration and deployment

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Designed and implemented multiple highly scalable APIs used by Insightly customers and the mobile apps* Led the company with the number of hackathon projects that were championed all the way to production* Significantly increased performance of SQLite cache by leveraging multiple concurrent connections* Resolved data consistency challenges related to server-side database replication latency* Rewrote an inefficient user analytics library to intelligently batch its sends with increased fault tolerance* Devised mechanisms for data synchronization, client conditional behavior, localized error responses, and schema change handling, including client and server side triggers* Incorporated Protocol Buffer serialization and wrote tools to precompile Protobuf deserializer code* Improved team efficiency by introducing a consistent branching strategy, simplified ticket management, automatic "prettification" of code, continuous integration and consistent builds* Established code guidelines and mentored developers on when and how to use concurrency* Reduced development pain points by writing various build tools to e.g. automatically validate localization files, update version numbers and manifest files* Created a proof-of-concept dashboard card to gamify testimonials via an Ethereum smart contract* Spearheaded migration from Mercurial and trained all developers on the differences with Git* Instituted on-call rotation for infrastructure and analytics monitoring for all team members* Prototyped integration of the Stratis Bitcoin full node as a payment rail

* Led a team of four developers in a re-write of the YouBetMe iOS and Android apps using a new cross-platform mobile application development framework* Trained the team on best practices for asynchronous code* Executed the migration to distributed version control (Git), and trained others on how to use it

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Revamped the shopping cart landing page so that page reloads were no longer required, for a better checkout experience* Standardized deployments via a suite of parameterized build scripts, and enabled local troubleshooting* Significantly reduced missing and unused image assets by devising a tool to audit assets on every check-in* Launched an initiative to revamp the Wine.com mobile app, and make it cross platform

* Led a small team in reengineering a medical services application to enable complex reporting requirements* Partitioned and replicated data per facility, permitting offline scenarios and reducing latency* Built an iOS app and corresponding back-end for therapists to enter treatment data

New York, Ny, Us

* Turned a proof-of-concept clip trimmer into a polished video editor with waveform scrubbing, silence detection and advanced frame navigation* Eliminated a problematic Java dependency by creating a C++ library to control QuickTime* Introduced web services for video transcoder orchestration, reducing the number of database connections

* Developed web applications and utilities modeling business processes for clients such as Conair* Integrated with web services and facilitated customizable analytics and reporting

* Created a web application to track aspects of gas infrastructure, leaks and repairs* Began migration of monolithic legacy systems to microservices

Richmond, Va, Us

* Re-launched a major news and blogging platform, to great success in terms of ad revenue* Resolved load problems happening during application startup under high-traffic conditions by fixing the cache implementation* Optimized object relational mapper query generation, leading to significantly lower database server CPU utilization

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Associate Of Science, Computer Science