Nathan Sarang-Walters

Co-founder & CTO

PrairieLearn

Oct 2021 - Current (4 years 9 months)

Senior Software Engineer

NerdWallet

Aug 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 3 months)

As an engineer on the Frontend Infrastructure team, I worked on the tools used by product teams to build delightful user experiences, including NerdWallet's design system, analytics framework, and developer tooling.

Software Development Intern

NerdWallet

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)

SDE Intern - Activation Team

Zillow

May 2017 - Aug 2017 (4 months)

During my time at Zillow, I undertook several projects. First, I assisted my mentor with an effort to break the page header and footer out of our monolith and into a scalable microservice. I then worked on my own project: building a system for calling out product features and leading guided tours of site functionality. For Zillow's Hack Week, I built an internal page for building managers to add special offers to their rentals and wrote documentation and guidelines for Zillow's new open source initiative.

CS 225 Lead Course Assistant

University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign

Jan 2017 - May 2019 (2 years 5 months)

As a course assistant for CS 255, I held office hours and ran lab sections to teach students about the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms. I also developed course materials, assignments, and infrastructure.

Math 198 Mentor

University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 (5 months)

Math 198 is a course for honors students that is a project-based exploration of mathematics and computer graphics. As a peer mentor, I worked with students to help them explore the course materials, develop their technical skills, and complete a capstone project.

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Developer

The Blue Alliance

Mar 2013 - Apr 2017 (4 years 2 months)

Lead developer for The Blue Alliance, an open source service for FIRST Robotics Competition data. Worked extensively on the Android app, including leading the initial development effort, executing a visual update to Material design, and regular maintenance. Rewrote the webcast viewing platform, GameDay, as a modern and testable React application. Designed a clean, beautiful logo that's now been adopted across all services.

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