2022 / UTAH BUSINESS
40 Under 40
Recognized while serving as Director of Software Services at Malouf Companies.
View the honoree profile ↗← The company behind ORCABusiness understanding.
NATE OBRAY / FOUNDER OF ORCA
Business understanding.
Engineering depth.
A career connecting technology to the way businesses work.
Nate brings experience leading operational software development, building custom applications, and publishing open-source tools. At ORCA, that experience informs conversations about your business and the systems it needs.
Talk through your operation ↗
EXPERIENCE / BEFORE ORCA
Software shaped by operational needs.
As Director of Software Services at Malouf Companies, Nate worked on the systems connecting business partners, orders, inventory, and fulfillment.
In his CIOReview article, he describes automated order processing, inventory allocation across six locations, shipping decisions, and exchanges of inventory and invoice information.
Read Nate’s account in CIOReview ↗Partner orders↓Inventory & location decisions↓Shipping & business records
This experience refers to Nate’s work at Malouf. It is not an ORCA customer case study or an endorsement by Malouf.
INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION
Recognized for leadership and impact.
ON CAMERA / UTAH BUSINESS / 2022
Hear from Nate.
Utah Business’s short honoree profile, recorded during Nate’s time as Director of Software Services at Malouf Companies.
Watch on YouTube ↗Published by Utah Business. The YouTube player loads only when you press play.
2018 / HOME FURNISHINGS BUSINESS
Industry recognition
Featured for leadership in internal software, inventory management, and order and shipping automation at Malouf.
Read the industry profile ↗OPEN-SOURCE WORK
Engineering you can inspect.
Public projects offer a closer look at Nate’s work across printing, application frameworks, and networking.
PRINTING / IPP
Connect software to physical work.
An open-source PHP printing library for communicating with network printers and CUPS. Explore the documentation, tests, releases, and community contributions.
Explore IPP ↗APPLICATIONS / OBRAY CORE
Build the application foundations.
A PHP framework with request routing, dependency injection, and a database model and query layer.
Explore Obray Core ↗REAL-TIME / NETWORKING
Keep systems in conversation.
Public socket and WebSocket libraries demonstrate work on persistent connections and real-time messaging.
Explore WebSocketServer ↗These are public engineering projects, not a list of ORCA product features.
Visit Nate’s GitHub profile ↗WRITING & CONVERSATION
Explore the thinking behind the work.
ARTICLE / CIOREVIEW
A Proven Use Case of EDI at Malouf
Nate’s first-person account of connecting operational data and automating business workflows.
Read the article ↗INTERVIEW / EPISODE 107
The Hard Truth About B2B eCommerce
A podcast appearance introduced under Obray Business Ventures (OBV). Explore the episode announcement and interview link.
View the episode announcement ↗PUT THE EXPERIENCE TO WORK
Start with your business problem.
Work with Nate and the ORCA team to explore an existing capability, a connection between systems, or a custom software project.
Start a conversation ↗