About

I'm Nate Ross, a Principal Engineer who builds production software. Not demos, not prototypes. Real products with real users.

I've spent the last decade across the full stack (.NET, Node.js, React, Swift, cloud infrastructure) and the last few years going deep on AI systems. I've shipped education platforms, autonomous newsrooms, workflow orchestration engines, LiDAR measurement tools, ecommerce, contractor software, iOS games, and published libraries. AI shows up in a lot of it because it earns its place, not because it's the pitch.

Recent work has gone deep on heavy-haul logistics and regulatory compliance: permit extraction, regulatory pipelines with independent review, and retrieval that cites the page it came from. Along the way I rebuilt the development lifecycle around what agents are actually good at, which turned out to be the research that makes a ticket executable and the verification work humans do badly because it's boring, and kept the humans on the judgment in between.

The software factory model: good tooling changes what a studio can build. I use AI at every stage of the work, from architecture through deployment, to ship at a pace that used to require a much larger group. It's just how I work, and the portfolio proves it. The SDLC writeup is the whole method with nothing held back.

I write about AI, architecture, and development on my personal blog.