Nathan Coulas

I work on production infrastructure, developer tooling, distributed systems, and AI-assisted workflows. Currently at Shopify in New York, focused on internal platform systems that help engineering teams operate production safely and move faster.

Work Experience

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Software Engineer II
May 2025 – Present

On Application Infrastructure: building internal infrastructure and tooling that helps Shopify engineering teams operate production systems safely and efficiently. Work spans deployment workflows, operational automation, Kubernetes-adjacent systems, and platform reliability.

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Software Engineer Intern @ Fellow.app
May 2024 – Mar 2025
Built product and infrastructure features across Fellow's AI meeting workflows, task execution systems, and video experience. Worked on AI-generated meeting notes and follow-ups, distributed background processing, media delivery performance, and playback reliability.
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Software Engineer Intern @ Gadget
Jul 2022 – Sep 2023

Built developer-facing product features for a full-stack app platform. Created a spreadsheet-like interface for editing Postgres data in real time, improved dashboard performance, and developed a TypeScript playground with live GraphQL integration.

Skills

Wearing many hats
Kubernetes
GCP
AWS
Terraform
TypeScript
React
Vite
MobX
Jest
Node.js
Python
Ruby
Go
PostgreSQL
GraphQL
Celery
LLM integrations
AI workflow automation

Contact

I'm interested in infrastructure, developer tools, distributed systems, and augmenting developers with AI. Reach out if you're building in that world.

Education

Computer Science at Carleton University, with a focus on software engineering and distributed systems.

You can find me on GitHub.