About

Nathaniel Compton is a Lead Software Engineer at Cox Automotive Inc. with a passion for clean data, decentralization, and security. With over 8 years of relevant experience, Nathaniel advocates for Free and Open-Source Software, data privacy rights, democracy, and user experience optimization. As a Senior Software Engineer and co-founding team member for both the Advanced Optimizations team and the Computer Vision / Machine Perception team at Cox Automotive Inc., Nathaniel has developed machine learning models and their cloud-based infrastructure in environments that demand high availability, performance, cost efficiency, and automation. His primary duties involve backend development, software architecture planning and implementation, cross-functional leadership, end-user communications, and documentation. Nathaniel has also served as the team's ad hoc frontend/full-stack engineer when needed. His tech stack includes Python, Node.js, Tensorflow, PyTorch, AWS Sagemaker, Docker, Hashicorp tooling, Jenkins, CircleCI, and New Relic. Before joining Cox Automotive Inc., Nathaniel worked as a Software Engineer at Revel Systems, a point of sale hardware + software solution for the food and retail industries. He was a founding member of the Reporting and Analytics team, where he worked on AWS, Big Data, Python, and Microservices. Nathaniel was involved in greenfield Big Data projects, including pipeline and data lake development, database ETL, and machine learning infrastructure. He also significantly refactored legacy code and optimized code performance up to 2.5x application performance. Nathaniel's tech stack at Revel Systems included Python, Javascript, AWS, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, and Typescript. Nathaniel's relevant experience includes 8.69 years, during which he has worked as a Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, product manager, and DevOps engineer. His tech stack includes AWS, backend development, ML, Javascript, frontend development, CI/CD, testing, computer vision, Sagemaker, New Relic, Python, infrastructure, Docker, Tensorflow, Jenkins, Pytorch, UI, Big Data, NodeJS, Microservices, and ETL. Nathaniel is a driven professional with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality software products that meet the needs of end-users.