Nathaniel W.

Founder and Product Lead at NPDESTracker

Gig Harbor, Washington, United States

About

I am a municipal stormwater compliance professional and founder of NPDESTracker, an early-stage SaaS platform designed to help public agencies manage NPDES/MS4 permit compliance, inspections, GIS-linked site records, annual reporting, and audit-ready documentation. My background is in environmental compliance, NPDES permit implementation, geographic information systems, inspection programs, public-sector coordination, and stormwater program development. Through my work with municipal stormwater programs, I have seen firsthand how much time agencies lose to fragmented spreadsheets, disconnected records, manual reporting, and systems that were not built around the actual day-to-day needs of permit staff. NPDESTracker was created to solve that problem. The goal is to build a modern, affordable, permit-centered compliance platform for small and mid-sized municipalities. The platform is being designed to centralize sites, inspections, incidents, activities, attachments, GIS data, annual reporting support, and audit history in one organized system. I am currently leading the product vision, compliance workflow design, user experience strategy, MVP development, and go-to-market planning for NPDESTracker. My focus is creating software that feels simple for field staff, useful for program managers, and defensible for annual reporting and audits. At its core, NPDESTracker is being built around a simple idea: municipal compliance software should make stormwater programs easier to run, easier to document, and easier to defend.

Experience

  • Founder and Product Lead at NPDES Tracker
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    Founded NPDESTracker, an early-stage software platform designed to help municipalities manage NPDES/MS4 stormwater permit compliance, inspection records, annual reporting workflows, GIS-linked site data, audit documentation, and program performance tracking. Lead product strategy, user experience design, compliance workflow mapping, market research, and MVP development for a multi-tenant SaaS platform focused on helping public agencies reduce reporting burden, improve data quality, and maintain defensible compliance records. Key focus areas include: * Municipal NPDES/MS4 permit compliance tracking * Inspection, incident, site, and activity record management * Annual report preparation and audit-ready documentation * GIS-based site and asset workflows * Role-based access for municipal teams * Configurable reporting structures for different jurisdictions and permit cycles Currently developing the product concept, technical architecture, MVP workflows, and go-to-market strategy for small and mid-sized municipalities.

  • Regulatory Compliance Analyst at City of Tacoma
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • City of Kent, Washington (Full-time · 3 yrs)
    • Senior Environmental Compliance Inspector
      Feb 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Environmental Compliance Inspector
      Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Environmental Specialist at City of Kent, Washington
    Sep 2019 - Feb 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos