Nate Kupp

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Data Infrastructure and Engineering.
Led teams in Technical Infrastructure and Data Science.
Built analytics infrastructure for iOS battery life at Apple.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Infrastructure and Engineering expert with a strong background in analytics and technical leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data InfrastructureData EngineeringTechnical InfrastructureData ScienceInfrastructureAnalytics

Other Skills

PythonObjective-CC++VerilogMatlabJavaData AnalysisMachine LearningProgrammingJavaScriptElectronics

Experience

Perplexity

VP Infrastructure

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Instacart

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

At Instacart I supported Data Infrastructure, covering all of our foundational data teams across Data Engineering and Data Platform. Collectively, Data Infrastructure provided the systems, tools, and expertise to give everyone at Instacart easy access to timely, correct, and reliable data.

Data InfrastructureData Engineering

Director of Engineering

Apr 2021 – Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Dagster labs

Engineering

Mar 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Dagster Labs is building the next generation of data orchestration: https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster

Thumbtack

2 roles

Director of Infrastructure & Data Science

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Manager, Technical Infrastructure & Data Science

Dec 2014 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Led the Technical Infrastructure and Data Science teams at Thumbtack. Together, these teams worked on some of Thumbtack's most challenging infrastructure and data problems.
On Technical Infrastructure, the team supported the foundational components to help Thumbtack scale. This included core platform services (e.g. our email/SMS/push service) all of our data infrastructure, A/B testing & experimentation, dev tools, security, and others.
On Data Science, we supported statistical rigor in experiment design & analysis and buil machine learning models which shape our marketplaces.

Technical InfrastructureData Science

Apple

iOS Battery Life Analytics Technical Lead

Jun 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Cupertino, CA

At Apple, I built out infrastructure (Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive) and analytics for iOS battery life data.

InfrastructureAnalytics

Ibm

Characterization Engineer

May 2009 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · East Fishkill, NY

Functional characterization of 32/45/65/90nm Foundry/ASIC/Game products, split lot analysis, SRAM/eDRAM centering analysis. Correlation of kerf measurements to MFT performances.