Nate
Lemos

Software engineer. I work on AI products and have opinions about them.

Currently at Silktide. TypeScript at work, C# at heart.

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About me

I've been writing software professionally since 2013. Started at a small company in Brazil doing C#, eventually moved to the US and worked at 343 Industries on the Halo Infinite backend, then spent about two and a half years at Microsoft on the Azure Portal team. I owned the Disks blade, which gets something like 100k hits a week.

Now I'm at Silktide doing backend work on their AI marketing tools and accessibility platform. Day to day it's a lot of TypeScript, talking to LLMs, and figuring out why the model gave a confident wrong answer again.

I've worked across most of the stack at this point. React, .NET, Kafka, Docker, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes. I don't really have a strong preference anymore, I just like building things that work.

Outside of work I play guitar (badly), DM a D&D campaign, mess around with 3D printing, and play too many games on my Steam Deck. I have two dogs, two cats, and a flock of quails in the backyard. They're louder than you'd think.

Cooking with Robots

cookingwithrobots.com

A recipe and meal planning app I've been building. It has around 160 recipes with allergy filtering, a hands-free cooking mode (so you don't have to touch your phone with raw chicken hands), and an AI assistant called "Grandma Bot" that can look at what's in your pantry and plan your week.

Next.js React 19 Tailwind v4 Prisma Framer Motion fly.io GPT-4 / AI Images Google Maps API

Work history

Silktide

Backend Engineer May 2025 – Present

Working on their AI marketing analysis tools, web accessibility checker, and an AI writing assistant. Mostly backend but I touch the full stack when needed.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer II Aug 2022 – Jan 2025

Azure Portal team, IaaS Core. I owned the Disks blade (100k+ weekly users). Lot of React, some legacy Knockout.JS that refused to die, and a bunch of backend API integration work.

Fresh Consulting

Software Developer II · Team Lead Aug 2019 – Aug 2022

Led a small team building a truck tracking system for a big building materials company. React and React Native frontends, .NET Core microservices, Kafka, Docker, AWS. Good team, learned a lot about running things in production.

343 Industries

Software Design Engineer III Oct 2018 – Aug 2019

Built the stats backend for Halo Infinite using .NET and MS Orleans. Also did performance work on existing Halo titles and helped coordinate the first client integration of the new game. Still probably the coolest thing on my resume.

Ventron

Senior Software Developer · Scrum Master Feb 2017 – Oct 2017

ASP.NET MVC work on a banking platform. The system processed around 400k transactions in its first few months. I was also the person who got the company to switch to Git, which felt like a bigger achievement at the time.

Fazsoft Solutions

Software Developer 2013 – 2017

Where I started. Intern to full-time after 8 months. Built all kinds of stuff: healthcare apps, finance tools, event management. Also did an Industry 4.0 project for a German auto-parts manufacturer, which was my first experience working with an international client.