Nathan Broadbent
Founder at DocSpring
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Broadbent is a founder and full‑stack software engineer based in Auckland with 15 years’ experience building web and mobile applications and running cloud infrastructure. As founder of DocSpring he focuses on developer-facing PDF form automation while shipping products across Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React/React Native, Svelte, Ember and Swift. He pairs product instincts with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source projects from travis-ci and SCM Breeze to react-native-sound where he fixed cross-platform bugs and improved developer workflows. Comfortable on both apps and infrastructure, he operates AWS/Terraform/Docker/Kubernetes stacks and has a knack for practical hacks—from building a volunteer RFID time‑kiosk to wiring an Octopus card to unlock his apartment door—that reveal a playful, problem-solving mindset.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
QBASIC, Visual Basic, Ruby on Rails, QBASIC, Visual Basic, Ruby on Rails at Self-taught, Internship at Crossroads Foundation
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Github Skills (90)
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Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
scmbreeze/scm_breeze
Oct 2011 - Nov 2022
Adds numbered shortcuts to the output git status, and much more
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:431 commits, 30 PRs, 53 pushes in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the SCM Breeze project, a tool to streamline Git workflows. Their contributions involved refactoring existing code, fixing bugs, and adding new functionalities such as new shell commands and the ability to handle paths with spaces. They also introduced a mechanism to add shell commands and keyboard shortcuts. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of shell scripting and Git internals, as well as a focus on improving user experience and overall functionality.
git-statusstatusshortcuts
fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm
Aug 2010 - Dec 2013
Ruby on Rails CRM platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1522 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan appears to be a back-end developer who primarily contributed to the development of a Ruby on Rails CRM platform. Their work involved creating a plugin generator for RSpec testing, ensuring correct plugin loading order, and modifying configuration files. This developer also refactored code related to email processing, which required working with IMAP and potentially database interactions to parse content.
ruby-on-railscrm-platformrails-crmrailshotel-booking
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