Nate is the Chief Product Officer at Cockroach Labs, the makers of CockroachDB: the resilient, scalable SQL database powering the next generation of internet applications. Before joining Cockroach Labs, Nate led the Web and Mobile application teams at Percolate, a marketing SaaS company that was later acquired by Seismic. He also worked as a Cloud + Enterprise product manager at Microsoft during their transition to a cloud-first strategy. Outside of product, Nate has deep engineering experience, working as a lead backend engineer at Bloomberg L.P. Nate has a BA in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and received his MBA from MIT, where he won the MIT $100k Business Plan Competition.