Nate
Lemos
I build with AI and write about why you shouldn't blindly trust it.
Senior engineer shipping AI products at Silktide. TypeScript by trade, C# in the heart. Skeptic by nature.
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I've been shipping software for over a decade. Started writing C# in a small office in Brazil, ended up at 343 Industries building backend services for Halo Infinite, then spent two and a half years on the Azure Portal team at Microsoft — owning the Disks experience that gets 100k+ hits a week.
These days I'm a Backend Engineer at Silktide, where I work on AI-driven marketing analysis, web accessibility tools, and an AI writing assistant. Most of my job is talking to AI models and making sure the things they produce actually work in production.
My main language is TypeScript, but C# will always be home. I've done the full stack dance — React, .NET, Kafka, Docker, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes — but I'm happiest when I'm designing systems and letting AI handle the boilerplate.
When I'm not coding, I play guitar, run DnD campaigns, 3D print questionable objects, and game on my Steam Deck. I also have two dogs, two cats, and quails. The quails are surprisingly loud.
Cooking with Robots
High-Tech Cottage Core
An AI-powered recipe platform I built from scratch. 160+ recipes with allergy filtering, personalized meal planning, a hands-free cooking mode for messy kitchens, and "Grandma Bot" — an AI assistant that scans your pantry, plans your week, and helps you order groceries with one click.
Where I've Built Things
Silktide
Backend Engineer May 2025 – PresentAI-driven marketing analysis, web accessibility tooling, and an AI writing assistant for content teams. Full-stack work across the platform.
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer II Aug 2022 – Jan 2025Azure Portal IaaS Core. Owned the Disks experience (100k+ weekly accesses). Built new features in React Hooks, maintained legacy Knockout.JS, integrated portal with backend APIs. Led initiatives that improved org-wide tooling.
Fresh Consulting
Software Developer II · Team Lead Aug 2019 – Aug 2022Led a team building a truck tracking system for the largest building materials company on the west coast. React, React Native, .NET Core microservices, Kafka, Docker, AWS. Multiple company-wide performance awards.
343 Industries
Software Design Engineer III Oct 2018 – Aug 2019Built the stats backend for Halo Infinite using .NET and MS Orleans. Reactive services and Web APIs for the Halo franchise. Performance-tuned existing titles and coordinated the first client integration of the new title.
Ventron
Senior Software Developer · Scrum Master Feb 2017 – Oct 2017Led ASP.NET MVC development for a banking platform. Key developer on a system processing 400k+ transactions in 3 months. Introduced Git as company standard.
Fazsoft Solutions
Software Developer 2013 – 2017Started as an intern, went full-time after 8 months. Built products for healthcare, finance, and event management. Developed an Industry 4.0 project for a German auto-parts company.
Things I've Built
Cooking with Robots
AI-powered recipe app with 160+ recipes, allergy filtering, meal planning, hands-free cooking mode, and "Grandma Bot" AI assistant. "High-Tech Cottage Core."
Next.js · Tailwind · Prisma · fly.io AI ProjectAI Companion System
A self-sustaining AI companion built on Obsidian, Claude Code, and Telegram. Persistent memory, scheduled tasks, browser automation, email and calendar sync — an AI that actually remembers you.
Claude Code · Obsidian · Telegram · Node.js · fly.ioN2tl.EventBroker
Observer pattern as an EventBroker for .NET dependency injection. Published on NuGet.
C# · NuGet · CQRSHtmlAgilityPack.NetCore.Query
CSS selector support for HtmlAgilityPack. Maintained for 7+ years.
C# · BSD-3nlemos.api.framework
Base framework for ASP.NET apps with common startup patterns and event streaming.
C# · ASP.NET Core · MITBoards.js
Trello-like collaboration tool built with Angular and Redux.
JavaScript · Angular · Redux