Nat Budin
Staff Software Engineer at ActBlue
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNat Budin is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building full-stack web applications and mentoring engineering teams, currently driving platform work at ActBlue from Bothell, WA. He blends hands-on development with DevOps sensibilities, previously serving in senior and principal roles at ActBlue Technical Services, PatientsLikeMe, and other startups. Nat contributes to open-source tooling in the Ruby ecosystem—most notably fixing tricky formatting and environment edge-cases in the popular prettier/plugin-ruby—demonstrating attention to correctness and cross-environment reliability. Known for pragmatic refactors (e.g., moving to temporary files for external processes) and improving embedded formatting and indentation, he brings both polish and practical operational fixes to codebases.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Brandeis University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
pretier10
prettify10
ruby10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
javascript8
objective-c6
heroku6
devise6
activerecord6
coreanimation6
macos6
openid6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
prettier/plugin-ruby
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Prettier Ruby Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to the Prettier Ruby Plugin, enhancing its functionality and correcting formatting issues. Their work included fixing the insertion of double modifiers and preventing nested ternary expressions, along with the addition of related tests. They also addressed indentation issues within embedded code formatting and adjusted the plugin to run in different environments, including Yarn Plug'n'Play environments. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase to use temporary files for external process execution and updated the file paths to be correct.
rubyprettierprettier-plugin
nbudin/react-blockly
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
A React component that embeds a Blockly visual programming editor.
Contributions:9 releases, 12 reviews, 98 commits in 3 years 3 months
blocklyreact-componentvisual-programming
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