Nathan Pons Software Engineer

About Me

Hi! My name is Nathan Pons and this is a website I made as a summary of my qualifications and projects I've made throughout the years and throughout my Software Engineering degree. On this website I go over some of those projects and talk about their features and the tools I used to create them. I hope you enjoy.

Qualifications

Western Governors University

B.S. Software Engineering

May, 2025

Utah State Board of Education

GED - High school diploma

Dec, 2022

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
CompTIA Project +
Axelos ITIL Foundations
Coursera Google IT Support

Skills / Hobbies / Interests

Programming
Science
Learning
Art
Aerospace
Puzzles/Problem Solving
Strategy

Programming Languages

Java
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
MySQL
PostgeSQL
HTML
CSS
UML

Art

Art is something I've spent a lot of time doing and I feel it is deeply related to programming. Programming is all about creating a good experience for a user and meeting their needs, and art is one of the mediums to accomplish that. It especially shines through GUIs and guiding a user through an application. Understanding where a user is likely to search for something and, as a developer, being able to provide that thing for them where they want it.

It's also something I enjoy, here are some of my favorites:

Griffin, Digital, ~2021

An image of a digital painting of a portrait of a blue griffin.

Flower with Dew, Oil paint, ~2020

An image of an oil painting of a orange flower with a few drops of dew on the petals.

This Site

Built with JavaScript using Next.JS, Express, HTML, Tailwind CSS, and Jest. It automatically deploys the website using GitHub Actions whenever I commit and push to the repository. Since it's release, I've swapped it from being deployed through GitHub Pages to instead being hosted through AWS S3 + CloudFront after being turned into a docker image. I've also added an Express backend to serve the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day to the frontend through an API endpoint. The backend is also hosted through AWS using Lambda and API Gateway. Eventually, I'd like to host it through Kubernetes as well but I'm worried about the costs associated with using AWS EKS.