Distinguished Engineer at Capital One · founder, Mayven Studios (acquired) · Alexandria, VA
Technology executive, CTO, and entrepreneur with 15+ years building and scaling high-performance engineering teams. Has worked with VC-backed companies, Fortune 500s, and high-growth startups — specializing in engineering leadership, demand-gen-driven technology teams, and an early leader in remote and hybrid engineering teams.
Currently a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, working in Card Tech on the technology powering one of the nation's largest credit-card platforms. The Distinguished Engineer title at Capital One is reserved for the top fraction of a percent of engineers — peers responsible for architecture decisions that ripple across thousands of engineers and hundreds of millions of customers.
Founder of Mayven Studios, one of the Bay Area's premier engineering & design agencies — generating tens of millions in lifetime sales and delivering software for Google, Airbnb, Facebook, IBM, Twilio, Segment, Hired, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Acquired by Saltwater (Ryan Graves, founding employee of Uber).
Beyond Mayven, Nate is an old hat in internet businesses — he's founded, acquired, and operated a portfolio of consumer apps and technical-content sites. He also invests in and advises early-stage startups on engineering hiring and scaling marketing operations.
Founded companies and led engineering teams at scale. Business primarily in California and Silicon Valley, but sourced talent around the globe and built early distributed teams — a pioneer of remote work long before it was a category. Has traveled to over 60 countries.