Description

Greetings! I'm Nathan. I'm a freelance software engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in backend development and natural language processing. I'm familiar with a wide range of computer technologies as well as human languages. If you'd like a free consultation on NLP or general engineering work, please don't hesitate to contact me.

You can also find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, or my personal website.

Website: nateglenn.com

Familiar Technologies:

Java, Spring Boot

Python, Flask

JavaScript/TypeScript

C++

MySQL

Perl

Apache Kafka

React/React Native

Rust

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Machine Learning

Language/Speech Processing

These are only some of the technologies I've used in the past. If you don't see a technology you need me for, feel free to ask anyway! I'm always looking to learn more and add more to my toolkit.

Familiar Human Languages:

English (native)

Japanese (fluent)

German (B2)

Korean

Vietnamese

Mandarin Chinese

Thai

Cambodian

Turkish

Latin

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Japanese
Fluent
German
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Freelance
Software Engineer: NLP Consultant
March 2022 - Today (4 years and 3 months)
Germany
Applying NLP to build next-gen language-learning experiences for English, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Arabic and more.
TRIVAGO N.V.
Auction Strategy: Java Engineering Responsibility Lead
December 2016 - March 2022 (5 years and 3 months)
Development of core services for optimizing search results, including the price placement auction and the hotel ranking. Production-ready implementation of auction mechanisms and machine learning algorithms. Development of tools for visualization of business decisions and service QA. Cross-department coordination and general team leadership responsibilities.
ATR-Trek
Language Processing Engineer
April 2015 - October 2016 (1 year and 6 months)
Osaka, Japan
Development of an NLU system for multiple locales, including contracting and managing corpus and domain dictionary work. Development of a web app for managing client linguistic resources. Turkish-Japanese translation system, including construction of corpora and custom morphological processors. Development of utilities for machine translation such as for word segmentation, corpus cleansing, and perplexity filtering. Updating, testing and automating legacy code.