Distinguished Engineer · Capital One · keynotes, panels & podcasts on scaling engineering teams
Nate speaks at conferences, on podcasts, and at corporate events on the operating realities of building software organizations — drawing from 15+ years building engineering teams, a Fortune 100 day job, and a founder's track record. Past venues include SXSW and NASDAQ in Times Square.
How to align engineering with demand-gen, performance marketing, and revenue growth. Why most product-led engineering playbooks fail in marketing-driven companies — and what to do instead. Useful for CTOs, CMOs, and founder-CEOs whose growth engine is paid acquisition.
A leadership philosophy that contrasts high-accountability, results-driven management with overprotective, overly hands-on leadership styles. How to build autonomy, discipline, and high performance without coddling teams. Hits hardest with people manager audiences.
Lessons from a decade-plus as a pioneer of remote-first engineering — long before "remote work" was a buzzword. The realities of building distributed teams, scaling across timezones, and maintaining culture without an office. "Location-agnostic hiring isn't cheaper — it's better." A staple talk; works for engineering, HR, and operating audiences.
Most engineering orgs are run as cost centers, which is why they feel like cost centers. How to wire engineering into revenue, measure leverage instead of throughput, and build an engineering org your CFO actually understands.
Patterns from years of designing APIs and microservices for Fortune 500s and high-growth startups in regulated industries (fintech, telehealth). What actually breaks at scale, what doesn't, and the org-design implications most architects ignore. Technical audience.
What changes for engineering orgs when LLMs are real co-workers, not toys. Hiring, code review, leverage, cost — and the long game on training data, model collapse, and the "snake eating its own tail." Forward-looking; great for founder/investor audiences.
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