Nathan Feger

Round Rock, TX, USA

Fractional CTO for small teams | Manager & Director Coaching | Hands-on Product Engineering

Helping teams improve culture, execution, and technical direction when progress stalls or targets start slipping.

Bio

A lot of engineering problems get framed as tooling, process, or architecture issues. Often, they are really a mix of culture, execution, and technical direction.

They show up as missed targets, slow delivery, unclear ownership, uneven quality, or teams that are working hard without enough forward motion.

Through Nate-Land Studios, I help teams untangle those issues and make practica…

Nathan Feger

Work

Experience

  • Expressway

    Fractional CTO

    Apr 2026 - Present

    Expressway Tech is the backoffice toolkit that restaurants need. Inventory planning, scheduling, and analytics are all the tools needed for a restaurant after they close a ticket, to be ready for the next one.

    • Planned out a full stack rewrite of the system
    • Executed the foundation layers to ensure we are setup for success
    • Worked strategically on integrating ML and AI into future product roadmaps
    • Coach internal devs, and proposed a new team organization in an agentic software world.
  • Smart Tag

    Fractional CTO

    Apr 2026 - Present

    Smart Tag helps students safely get to and from school. This involves a custom driver app, a parent app, routing software as well as the infrastructure to help with bus and fleet management

    • Leading security and SDLC efforts to get the team a SOC Audit
    • Lead recruitment efforts of a full RTO team
    • Transitioned ownership of 20 year tech leadership to myself in < 4 weeks
    • Onboarded as a developer myself to respond to production incidents due to team attrition
    • Leading agentic coding practices to help level up the engineering team.
  • FranklinCovey

    FranklinCovey

    Head Of Engineering

    Apr 2022 - Nov 2025

    FranklinCovey is a leadership development company undergoing a strategic shift toward becoming more technology-driven.

    • Scaled engineering from 9 to 25 across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Brazil, and other regions
    • Led technical due diligence for an acquisition and integrated developers with 0% attrition while achieving >10% budget savings and increasing velocity
    • Guided AI transformation through vendor evaluation, internal enablement, and delivery improvements without sacrificing quality
    • Improved roadmap execution, delivery cadence, and cross-team operating consistency
    • Balanced leadership with hands-on contributions in prototyping, build systems, and developer productivity work
  • PowerSchool (via acquisition of Schoology)

    PowerSchool (via acquisition of Schoology)

    Senior Director / Director / Engineering Manager

    Nov 2015 - May 2022

    Schoology is a mission-critical Learning Management System used daily by millions of teachers and students.

    • Led engineering organizations from team level through senior director scope, culminating in a ~50-person org across mobile, backend, frontend, data, architecture, and cloud operations
    • Owned uptime, roadmap predictability, retention, and a roughly $10M annual budget across people, vendors, and cloud hosting
    • Built and optimized distributed teams across North and South America and India
    • Mentored and promoted 5 ICs into management through structured coaching and career development
    • Stayed close to the work through architecture oversight, technical reviews, and support for major platform efforts including Kubernetes migration
    • Improved development productivity, accelerated feature delivery, and helped launch product work that materially increased adoption
  • Spredfast, Allen Technologies, eBay, Works, rightshop.net

    Ranged from IC to Team Lead

    Jan 1999 - Jan 2015

    Built the technical foundation for my current work through software architecture, platform engineering, performance and reliability improvements, integrations, data systems, and early team leadership across consumer, healthcare, finance, and enterprise software environments.

  • University of Pittsburgh

    University of Pittsburgh

    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    Jan 1998 - May 1999

    The University of Pittsburgh is a prestigious research university dedicated to academic excellence and innovation.

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