San Francisco Bay Area · JHU '13

Nate Willard

Founding engineer & tech lead at Vesta, now the system of record at America's 2nd largest mortgage lender. Before that, Twitch and Blend. Software engineer by day, surfer by earlier in the day.

Experience

Founding Engineer / Tech Lead 2021 – 2025
Vesta

Founding engineer and tech lead for a 4-engineer team across product, platform, and API. Helped take a loan origination system from 0 → production → scale, now system of record for lenders like PennyMac.

Software Engineer 2019 – 2021
Twitch

Edge / async squad. Internal (EventBus) and external (WebSub, EventSub) eventing systems, processing a few billion events per week.

Software Engineer 2016 – 2019
Blend

Early engineer; lending platform team. Implementation and ownership of async worker systems, a single → multi-tenant overhaul that cut AWS spend by >$100K/yr, and load-testing, e2e, and monitoring strategies for core APIs. IPO 2021 (NYSE: BLND).

Writing

New

Paper Reviews

Short reviews of papers I'm reading; AI-focused. In the spirit of The Morning Paper.

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