Nat Hamilton is a product-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building delightful front-end experiences and shipping product strategy from prototype to production. Currently Head of Product at Nuon after progressing from Frontend Developer, Nat blends hands-on React/TypeScript development with product management skills honed at Mailchimp and Reaction Commerce. He contributed to Reaction Commerce’s popular example-storefront—implementing Apollo-powered GraphQL integrations, Material UI theming, and image loading optimizations—showing a pragmatic eye for UX performance. Comfortable switching between shipping UI components and defining product roadmaps, Nat brings a designer’s background in media informatics to craft polished interfaces that meet business goals. Based in Chapel Hill, he combines startup agility with experience across both consultancy and in-house teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Media Infomatics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Media Infomatics at Northern Kentucky University
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Art/Art Studies General, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Art/Art Studies General at Southern State Community College
Example Storefront is Reaction Commerce’s headless ecommerce storefront - Next.js, GraphQL, React. Built using Apollo Client and the commerce-focused React UI components provided in the Storefront Component Library (reactioncommerce/reaction-component-library). It connects with Reaction backend with the GraphQL API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:339 commits, 72 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to the development of the example Storefront, focusing on creating and integrating React components. Their work involved setting up Apollo Client for GraphQL interactions, building a header component, customizing the Material UI theme, and structuring the page layout. They also implemented image loading features, suggesting a focus on optimizing the user experience by improving the visual presentation of products.
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