My name is Nathaniel Smith and I am currently a software engineer at Mindy. I am very passionate and inquisitive about the things that interest me(which is a lot).

Experience

MindySoftware Engineer

2024 — 2026

AI @ UIUCVice President & Co-Founder

2022 — 2024

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Aechelon TechnologyRuntime Engineer

2023 — 2023

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Implemented HDR lighting with tone-mapping in a flight simulator used in over 900 flight training systems

Created a user interface to allow for fine tuning of HDR gain parameters

Added support for lookup tables to increase efficiency of implementation by 35%

Worked to overhaul the flight simulator lighting system to use physically based rendering

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSoftware Developer

2021 — 2021

Developed data analysis python solution in tandem with PostgreSQL database

Refactored PostgreSQL database in a way that nearly doubled analysis speed

Utilized AWS S3, EC2, Lambda, and API Gateway to create a REST endpoint for streamlined analysis

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Experience

Education

Bachelor's degree