Nat Bennett

Elixir Developer & co-Founder of StoryTime

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

About

Experience

  • Co-Founder at StoryTime
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Consultant at Nat Bennett Consulting
    Mar 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 5 mos

    Software development consulting, mostly at the intersection of "systems that handle millions of dollars in payments" and "systems no one fully understands." I can make changes safely to mission-critical systems, and lead teams to do the same.

  • Senior Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Ruby, Golang, k8s CRDs, TDD, and pairing

  • Pivotal Software, Inc. (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Software Engineering Manager
      Dec 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Coached, mentored, and managed 6-8 individuals distributed across multiple teams

    • Software Engineer
      Jul 2015 - Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos

      Software Engineer Jul 2015 - Jun 2018 Senior Software Engineer Jul 2018 - Nov 2018 Staff Software Engineer Dec 2018 - Present Contributed to Cloud Foundry R&D teams, including Cloud Operations, Core Services (MySQL Galera), Billing and Accounts Management, OSS Release Integration, UAA (Oauth Identity Proxy), and PAS Release Engineering. Wrote BOSH releases, built Concourse pipelines for CI/CD, deployed to and tested in production, managed a bit of Terraform, and ran lots of tests. Anchor (team lead) of Cloud Operations from April 2017 - December 2018. Led implementation of first user-facing SLI measurements of Cloud Foundry, and transitioned production systems from cf-release to cf-deployment. Introduced Honeycomb for tracking intermittent test failures in acceptance test suites.

  • Test Lead at Doran Jones Inc.
    Jul 2014 - Jun 2015 · 1 yr