Resume — Nathan Pickard

Career Summary

Pragmatic senior software engineer with 6+ years of experience architecting and delivering feature-rich web applications for high-growth fintech and startup environments. At Kellton, architected foundational features for the full loan origination funnel, agent desk platform, and financial health products for the financial tech client, Best Egg. The customer facing loan funnel product serves more than 2 million users and earned first-place rankings in J.D. Power's 2025 US Consumer Lending Satisfaction study for both "Experience Obtaining Loan" and "Meeting Borrowing Needs." Currently, a founding engineer at Harbor ATS, building an AI-powered recruiting platform from the ground up. Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes in conversion rate optimization, real-time analytics integration, and scalable front-end architecture.

Skills

Languages/Frameworks JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, Vue, Node.js, Python, Django, NgRx, Tailwind, Angular Material, HTML5, CSS, SCSS, Less, Bootstrap

Tools/Infrastructure AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway), Docker, MongoDB, MySQL, Datadog, FullStory, Nginx, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Ansible

Testing & Quality Karma, Jasmine, Jest, Vitest, pytest, Mocha, Chai

AI Models & Tools Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, OpenAI API, Cursor, Kiro

Specializations Software architecture, Fintech, Accessibility/WCAG, AI implementation, UI/UX optimization, A/B tests

Education

Middle Tennessee State University / Portland Community College B.S. Computer Science — in progress

Experience

Harbor ATS Founding Senior Full-Stack Engineer HR startup – AI-powered applicant tracking system

Mar 2026 – present

Architecting an AI-powered ATS from the ground up, featuring human-in-the-loop matching and automated candidate re-engagement
Engineering a scalable full-stack recruiting CRM using modern full-stack frameworks with automated interview scheduling and real-time analytics to support the platform's initial commercial production launch
Engineering a comprehensive analytics and reporting engine that provides real-time visibility into hiring funnel health, source-quality signals, and recruiter performance to drive data-informed talent acquisition

Kellton Senior Software Engineer Consultant for Best Egg – Financial tech company

Dec 2020 – Jun 2025

Led front-end engineering for Best Egg's consumer loan origination funnel in Angular as part of a 24-person engineering team, achieving a 23% month-over-month lift in conversion rates and 18% increase in customer retention across a 2M+ user base
Architected v2 of the offers experience, the highest-impact step of the loan funnel, including A/B test-driven display variants, secured/unsecured offer handling, cover-the-fee product types, and a decision rebuild strategy for vehicle equity loan amount range selection
Built the back of house facing Phone Apply Website, enabling agent-assisted loan applications with a purpose-built Angular UI layered over the same Django REST API backend powering the customer funnel
Built the end-to-end refinancing feature, including a post-offers interstitial presenting side-by-side comparisons of existing vs. refinanced loan terms, supporting single and dual prior loan payoffs, cash payout eligibility, and two product tracks (standard refinance and vehicle equity cash-out refinance)
Delivered offer and refinancing features that contributed to Best Egg reaching $200M in originations for the first time, and earning first-place rankings in J.D. Power's 2025 US Consumer Lending Satisfaction study
Built and published a shared Angular library providing reusable components, services, and directives consumed by all consumer facing Best Egg frontend applications
Engineered features for AgentDesk v2, a role-based agent dashboard built in React, Redux, and Tailwind featuring dedicated components for funding queue management, verification queue processing, credit decision review, and opportunity inspection. Reduced back of house loan application verification time by 23% after launch.
Developed UI components for the Best Egg Financial Health platform in Vue and Tailwind increasing customer conversion rates by 18% and 15% increase in refinance conversion
Instrumented FullStory and Datadog real user monitoring (RUM) across the full funnel for real-time session replay, funnel drop-off analysis, and production error alerting, reducing time to remediation on UI regressions
Maintained test coverage across a multi-stack platform using Karma/Jasmine/Jest/Vitest for the frontend stack and pytest for the Django layer

Lazarus Naturals Frontend Developer Large CBD wellness startup

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020

Collaborated with cross-functional product and design teams to deliver innovative marketing landing pages and spearheaded the development of a company-first, native app in React which drove an increase in sales by 24%
Developed high-conversion store-front pages in React, collaborating with design and marketing teams to deliver visually polished campaign pages that drove 21% increases in site traffic and customer engagement
Modernized and engineered product templating features for the Lazarus Naturals e-commerce WordPress site in a rapidly expanding startup environment
Successfully launched three new product categories to the WordPress e-commerce platform, driving an increase in site traffic and customer engagement by 32% month over month

Mental Health Match Angular Developer Mental Health startup

May 2019 – Aug 2019

Worked alongside the CTO and CEO to implement new and refreshed application features and prototype AWS technologies such as API Gateway, S3, and Lambda to increase therapist and customer conversion rates by 35% and improved user experience for an emerging mental health sector
Enhanced the customized therapist platform using multi-step onboarding and UX enhancements using Angular best practices to increase therapist onboarding by 31% for the first 3 months after product re-launch
Optimized front-end performance by implementing lazy loading and state management patterns, reducing initial page load time by 28% and enhancing responsiveness for users seeking urgent mental health resources
Improved site discoverability by implementing Google Analytics tracking, enabling data-driven insights into user acquisition, page performance, and funnel drop-off across the therapist and customer-facing platform

Freelance Web Developer Web Developer Self-employed

Sep 2017 – Apr 2019

Developed a course scheduling web application built in React for Salisbury State University. Used Node.js and MongoDB for data retrieval and storage. Deployed and hosted on AWS.
Built a live music event tracking app in Angular for an event coordinator in Portland, OR. Utilized Node.js to call REST APIs for real-time data retrieval. Firebase used for event storage, deployment and hosting.

Activities & Community

Active participant of Portland-area tech conferences, software engineering meetups, and hackathons focused on AI and modern web technologies