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  },
  "name": "Nathan H O'Brien",
  "title": "Staff Software Engineer · Design Engineer · AI-Native / Agentic Systems",
  "location": "Minneapolis, MN (Remote)",
  "contact": {
    "email": "n8plusus@gmail.com",
    "phone": "612-208-6868",
    "linkedin": "linkedin.com/in/nathanhunsaker",
    "github": "github.com/nhunsaker"
  },
  "summary": "Staff Software Engineer specializing in design engineering and AI-native agentic systems. A design-trained and engineering-fluent innovator who excels at translating imaginative concepts into production-ready software. Thrives in fast-paced, fluid environments, driving projects from idea to implementation with a focus on pioneering agentic frameworks. Delivers high-impact, AI-driven solutions that solve complex business challenges and accelerate development.",
  "experience": [
    {
      "company": "BuzzFeed",
      "tenure": "11 years (Mar 2015 to Jul 2026)",
      "roles": [
        {
          "title": "Staff Software Engineer",
          "dates": "Dec 2023 to Jul 2026",
          "location": "Remote",
          "intro": "Owner and expert of the frontend domain for the social-publishing platform. Provided thought leadership and hands-on implementation of AI-native and agentic patterns directly to the VP of Technology, contributed to AI working groups with tech leadership, and shared vision in the weekly cross-team AI dev meeting to help move AI from direction to practice across the organization:",
          "bullets": [
            "**Spearheaded an AI agent to take over support-ticket triage**, greatly reducing the 20 hours of weekly team time it consumed. It reached a team-wide, month-long beta running the **full loop in production** (classify → investigate → draft the fix and reply) with human sign-off on every action: **84% handling accuracy** on tickets it had never seen, trained on two years of resolved history and improving with every correction. Coordinated with other internal support-channel managers to plan its implementation throughout the company.",
            "**Pioneered an agentic framework migration** of a decade-old Python app to Next.js, completed in **8% of the estimated engineering time** and packaged into a **reusable blueprint to apply across twelve similar systems**.",
            "**Architected and shipped a dynamic image-template platform** powering automated social posts and personalized share artifacts. The redesigned share experience won its A/B test at **+176% desktop and +82% mobile share engagement**. I then made it a **turnkey, self-service path** any team could adopt.",
            "**Built the Callout admin platform in Next.js from scratch as lead author**. The application is an operator tool for on-site promotions with live preview (in-admin and on-site), undo/redo, autosave, themes, media uploads, and audience & device targeting."
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
          "dates": "Mar 2015 to Dec 2023",
          "location": "Minneapolis, MN",
          "intro": "Owned the frontend of the social team's publishing platform for 8+ years as its domain expert, with 100+ connected channels, 40+ users, and hundreds of posts daily across six platforms:",
          "bullets": [
            "Built the React application which included a guided composer, mixed-media carousel composer, and self-service account-management tools.",
            "Set patterns beyond the product: a publishing SDK and Chrome extension, and the cross-brand rollout of a custom-built link-in-bio service.",
            "Helped integrate ML-based content recommendations in 2018, years before the current AI wave.",
            "Mentored and onboarded engineers, frequently took on design/UX ownership, and wrote test plans and managed the QA process for delivery.",
            "Recognized in peer reviews for unmatched visibility into the org's internal tooling; received five internal kudos awards spanning delivery, incident response, and user support."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "note": "**Performance ratings across BuzzFeed:** Exceeds on Innovation and Quality (2024 and 2025 review cycles)."
    }
  ],
  "earlier": [
    "**N8+US, Inc · Founder / Technical Consultant** · 2010 to 2015 · Provided technical leadership, architecture, and delivery direct to national brands and agencies: scoping, estimates, and interactive application builds. For Best Buy's Emerging Platforms lab, built ML sentiment analysis over customer tweets, trained against a Google dataset, to show how customers actually experienced Twelpforce, the company's pioneering Twitter customer-service program (2010). Other clients included Oracle, Capital One, BuzzFeed, MNSure, Agosto (Google Global Partner of the Year for Cloud, 2013), and Intelligent Nutrients.",
    "**Schematic · Director of Technology (Minneapolis)** · 2008 to 2010 · Served as solutions architect and technical director for the Minneapolis office serving Target. Schematic was then among the premier UX and interactive-engineering firms in the US. Lead role in delivery of the **Target.com navigation redesign** and holiday projects; coordinated delivery across the New York, Los Angeles, and Costa Rica offices; charged with local talent acquisition and recruiting.",
    "**OLSON · Technical Creative Director / Interactive Development Supervisor (Minneapolis)** · 2004 to 2008 · Led interactive and technical delivery on dozens of accounts including Target, which grew from a small, project-based engagement into one of the agency's lead accounts (200%+ year-over-year growth, at high profitability and client satisfaction). Recruited and grew the interactive team from four to about 36 (12 full-time plus about 24 contract) delivering across 100+ clients.",
    "**Fallon Worldwide, Martin/Williams, and earlier agency work** · 1995 to 2004 · Freelance and staff web development: BMW.com and BMWFilms.com microsites, the Bahamas.com launch, Timberland, Microsoft, and Scotts; founding member of Martin/Williams Interactive (Target, US Bank, Walker Art Center). Started in web development in 1995."
  ],
  "earlierNote": "Early recognition: AIGA Silver and D&AD (British Design and Art Direction) Merit awards, a Microsoft case-study feature, and work featured in *The Web Design WOW! Book*.",
  "skills": [
    {
      "group": "AI / Agentic",
      "items": "LLM orchestration and multi-agent workflows · MCP servers · agentic migration pipelines · production LLM API integration · prompt and agent design · LangChain · Chainlit · Claude and OpenAI APIs · Claude Code, Copilot, and ChatGPT via VS Code"
    },
    {
      "group": "Frontend",
      "items": "React · Next.js · TypeScript · JavaScript · SSR · design systems and design tokens · styled-components · Storybook · automated testing (Playwright) · Chrome extension and Figma plugin development"
    },
    {
      "group": "Backend / Infra",
      "items": "Node.js · Python · FastAPI · Temporal (durable workflow orchestration) · PostgreSQL · Redis · Firestore · S3/CDN · Docker · GitHub Actions CI · OAuth (Okta, Clerk) · Stripe · Datadog · self-hosted PaaS (Coolify)"
    },
    {
      "group": "Leadership",
      "items": "Team building & recruiting · managing & mentoring direct reports · performance reviews · planning & resource management · technical direction & architecture · client pitches & new business · conference speaking"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    "Minneapolis College of Art and Design · Interactive Design"
  ]
}