Jonathan Nobels
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJonathan Nobels is a seasoned software engineer with 25 years in the mobile space and a strong track record building products from firmware to cloud-backed services. He was a foundational contributor and leader on flagship projects like the BlackBerry SDK and BBM, and more recently contributes to Tailscale’s back-end, improving WireGuard-based networking, macOS sleep/wake DNS robustness, and audit logging. Comfortable across iOS, macOS, Android, Qt, VPNs and networking, he has shipped diverse consumer and security software including SDKs, IM clients, VPNs and anti-malware integrations. Based in Guelph, Ontario with a mechanical engineering degree from Waterloo, he blends systems-level thinking from hardware and mechanical roots with deep software expertise, often surfacing subtle platform edge cases into reliable product fixes.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (8)
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vpn10
networking10
wireguard10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 113 reviews, 56 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on back-end development within the Tailscale project. Their contributions involved modifying core logic related to exit node configuration and preferences, and also included fixes to issues in DNS resolution, specifically addressing problems arising from sleep/wake cycles on macOS. The user was also responsible for refactoring default route determination on Darwin platforms. Furthermore, the user implemented support for audit logging and addressed a bug related to the macOS test environment.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
barnstar/Open-Altimeter
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 79 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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