Gordon Ryan Nakamura

Overview

I invest in healthcare at Goldcrest Seed Fund, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 32 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Nvidia and Atlassian.

Experience

1. Partner

   Feb 2026 - Present
   Goldcrest Seed Fund · 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Wrote the regulation service that now handles 60 million requests a day.
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 39 a week to 4.
   • Moved 75% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2023 - Feb 2026
   Nvidia · 3 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Backed 60 founders at pre-seed and seed.
3. Software Engineer

   Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
   Atlassian · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 793ms to 60ms.
4. Director of Engineering

   Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
   Verizon · 3 yr 1 mo · Contract · San Francisco, CA
   • Led the migration of 80 services to biotech.
5. Staff Embedded Engineer

   Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
   Deloitte · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Led the migration of 23 services to regulation.
   • Shipped 10 launches on the search team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Stanford University

   BS, Finance
   2000 - 2004