# Nathan Stewart

> Nathan Stewart is a founding engineer at Merge (merge.dev), the unified API platform that lets B2B SaaS companies connect to hundreds of HRIS, ATS, CRM, accounting, and ticketing systems through a single integration. Based in New York and educated at The Ohio State University, Stewart is a backend developer who joined Merge in its early days and has helped scale the company to over 140 employees and $74.5M in funding. He describes himself as a 'Software Engineer & Puzzle Aficionado,' an apt description for someone building the connective infrastructure that keeps the modern SaaS stack wired together.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Merge
- **Organizations:** Merge
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's (Computer Science or related field), The Ohio State University
- **Known for:** Founding/early engineer at Merge, a company that reached $74.5M in total funding, Part of the team that grew Merge to 140+ employees and $20.8M in annual revenue, Contributed to Merge being named Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star

## Career timeline

- **2021** — Joined Merge (merge.dev) as an early/founding backend engineer
- **2022** — Merge raised $55M Series B (October 2022), reaching $74.5M total funding
- **2023** — Merge named Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star and Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups
- **2024-2025** — Merge expanded product suite to include AI agent tooling (Merge Agent Handler, Merge Gateway)

## Achievements

- Founding/early engineer at Merge, a company that reached $74.5M in total funding
- Part of the team that grew Merge to 140+ employees and $20.8M in annual revenue
- Contributed to Merge being named Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star
- Active on Project Euler - computational and mathematical problem solving
- Built cryptography and parallel computing projects including a Playfair cipher cracker and parallel AMR simulation

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Merge expanded into AI agent infrastructure with Merge Agent Handler and Merge Gateway products
- **2022-10** — Merge closed $55M Series B led by Accel, with Addition and NEA participating

## Links

- Website: http://n8stewart.github.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/n8stewart/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/n8stewart
- GitHub: https://github.com/N8Stewart

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Last updated: 2026-05-25