Nate Vink

Product & Design Lead

Fourteen years shipping consumer apps, developer tools, and data platforms — from 0-to-1 builds to enterprise systems at scale.

Selected Work

Software.com

A measurement framework for quantifying AI tool ROI — built for the question every engineering leader was being asked in board meetings.

2025–Present

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Software.com

Side-by-side benchmarking of any combination of teams, tools, or vendors — so investment decisions are data-backed instead of gut calls.

2023

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Software.com

Applied the theory of constraints to the SDLC, surfacing the biggest process bottlenecks and the metrics that need the most attention.

2024

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New Relic

Connected APM and Infrastructure data for the first time — so engineers could answer 'code or infra?' in seconds, not minutes.

2017–2018

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New Relic

Proactive intelligence that surfaced issues before they became incidents — and later became the foundation for New Relic AI.

2016–2017

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Side Project

Brand identity and Strava-like app concept for neighborhood cleanup. The character, name, and animation are all done. The rest is waiting.

2021

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More Work

New Relic

Full-text search across billions of log events — built for incident pressure with a flexible model using terms and logic operators.

2019–2020

New Relic

Extended Service Maps to cross-account dependencies — so teams could trace issues upstream and downstream, beyond what they directly owned.

2018

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Mobile-first sales intelligence that surfaced timely prospect signals and prompted follow-up reminders to keep deals from going cold.

2016