Remote — US Central • nathanjbarlow@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/nathanjamesbarlow
• github.com/soniccyclone
Skills
- AI/ML: CrewAI, Databricks, LLM Agents, RAG, Prompt
Engineering, Agentic Systems, OpenSpec
- Languages: Bash, C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript,
Python, SQL, TypeScript, x86 Assembly
- Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, Git,
Kubernetes, Prometheus, RabbitMQ, Terraform
- Web: CSS, HTML, OpenAPI
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
- Architecting a templated agentic search engine for healthcare payor
policy lookup, enabling automated retrieval and reasoning over complex
coverage rules using CrewAI and Python on Databricks
- Designing multi-agent orchestration pipelines that decompose natural
language policy queries into structured search, retrieval, and synthesis
stages
- Built a spec-driven AI development workflow where OpenSpec governs
agent behavior through living specs, Beads provides persistent task
memory and work discovery, Copilot accelerates implementation against
that shared context, and automated testing tightens the feedback loop
for agentic iteration velocity
Stanza Systems 2024 – 2025
Software Engineer
- Developed a high performance rate limiter as a service in Go
- Created a C# SDK for the rate limiter service, with deployment
automation in the first release
- Aligned frontend and backend teams over an OpenAPI spec
- Developed a time series based data lakehouse for analysis of
operations data using Dask and Python
- Adapted the data lakehouse into an asset management system and
handled setting up devops on Azure
Milliman IntelliScript 2021 – 2024
Software Developer
- Modernized the Curv group health underwriting engine into a cloud
native distributed system on AWS
- Enabled new cloud services to utilize legacy on premise databases
with the Strangler Fig pattern
- Implemented multiple microservices in an event-driven system, using
RabbitMQ and SQS
- Improved observability by instrumenting microservices with
Datadog
Radiance Technologies 2021
Modeling & Simulation Engineer
- Developed extensions to physics based models in C++ for AFSIM
- Created simulation data ingestion pipelines with Python to support
analysis in Dakota and Excel
Epic Systems 2018
Software Intern
- Developed an interactive prototype for a cloud-based text template
backup system within Epic Hyperspace
iit/SourceTech 2013 – 2021
Software Developer
- Lead the automation first DevOps cultural shift within engineering
org, enabling continuous deployments
- Increased development velocity across the legacy application suite
through the introduction of the Model-View-Presenter pattern, enabling
test automation for these legacy applications
- Doubled performance of order monitoring system while increasing
granularity of reported data
Education
Cedarville
University, Cedarville, OH 2015 – 2019
Computer Science with a Specialization in Cyber Operations,
B.S.
Projects
Shell Eco-Marathon
Supermileage 2016 – 2017
- Made a car metric data aggregation dashboard, utilizing Web Sockets
for real time reporting
LightSys
Spring Break Code-a-Thon for Missions 2017 – 2018
- Developed and released the Joshua Project Data Gathering app in a
four day hackathon
FIRST LEGO League 2008 – 2009
- Increased development velocity and enhanced competition performance
by developing a library module system for LEGO Mindstorms NXT
programs