Hi, I'm Nate.
I build products and teams that solve problems. My superpower is distilling complexity and communicating solutions in a clear, approachable way.
I've been a startup co-founder, CTO, full-stack developer, technical instructor, developer advocate, and technical product manager, and Microsoft MVP. I'm currently a founding engineer at Arcade.dev, building the platform AI agents need to operate securely in the real world.
Useful things I've built
I like making things that help developers:
- MCP Debugger, a tool to help Model Context Protocol server devs test their servers as an agent would
- OAuth and OpenID Connect in Plain English (the most-watched OAuth explainer in the world!)
- OIDC Debugger, a tool to easily test OAuth and OpenID Connect flows
- The Little ASP.NET Core Book, a royalty-free book to help devs learn the ASP.NET Core web framework
You can follow me on X (@nbarbettini) to get notified whenever I publish anything new.