I’m Nathan Slaughter, a software engineer with more than a decade of experience building and operating software. My work spans fintech, observability, data pipelines, and global infrastructure.
Before software became my main work, I managed investment portfolios. That background taught me to ask what the evidence actually supports, a habit I bring to designing, testing, and operating systems.
Selected experience
- Observability integrations. At Lightstep, I managed contractors building metrics integrations across infrastructure including Kafka, Cassandra, and RabbitMQ. The work included two OpenTelemetry Collector receivers.
- Data pipelines. I built and operated a metrics pipeline delivering more than 50 MB/s into a data lake.
- Global infrastructure. I operated the observability components of a Kubernetes platform spanning more than 50 datacenters and helped workload teams deploy, instrument, and run their services.
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Independent projects
My independent practice serves investment managers and trading firms, and the companies that supply their data. For managers and trading firms, I set up Claude with shared skills and read-only access to their data, so the whole office works the same way. I also build integrations that bring third-party data into their applications, and pipelines that keep it in storage they own. For data providers, I build APIs and SDKs, and I run scheduled checks of the data their customers can retrieve, with reports on expected releases, missing records, and unexpected changes. I take on fixed-scope projects, with ongoing maintenance and monitoring available afterward.
Get in touch
I’m also open to engineering roles where I can help teams build and operate reliable software, across industries.
Contact me on LinkedIn with a note about your team, the role or project, and the problem you’re working on.