Nate Barnes
Software Engineer at ManTech
Kihei, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Barnes is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience blending QA, automation, and full-stack development, currently delivering solutions at ManTech from Kihei, Hawaii. He began in operations and mission-critical systems—authoring a resilient NOAA buoy data collector that ran 24/7 and was adopted by the University of Hawaii—and later transitioned into QA leadership and automation using Perl and Ruby/Watir. Over the past decade he has focused on Java-based web stacks (JSF, JBoss Seam, Hibernate, Spring) and modernized legacy JSP/Struts apps while maintaining strong test automation discipline. An active contributor to the Ruby ecosystem, he improved robustness and OAuth handling in the widely used twitter-ruby client, adding tests to ensure cross-version compatibility. Nate combines hands-on coding with a tester’s eye for reliability, making him especially effective on projects that require transforming legacy systems into maintainable, well-tested services.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Point Loma Nazarene University
Github Skills (6)
faraday10
oauth10
ruby10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sferik/twitter-ruby
May 2011 - May 2011
A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Nate primarily worked on the `twitter-ruby` repository, which is a Ruby interface for the Twitter API. Their contributions focused on improving the robustness and maintainability of the library. The user addressed issues related to handling HTTP responses, ensuring compatibility with different Ruby versions, and implementing custom OAuth authentication to deal with Twitter's specific requirements. They also added tests to validate the OAuth implementation.
apirubytwitter-clienttwitter-apitwitter
NateBarnes/alice
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
A Slack bot framework for Elixir; down the rabbit hole!
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
holebotelixirslack-botslack
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