Nate Kidwell
Staff Engineer at OnsiteIQ
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNate Kidwell is a Staff Engineer and serial founder with 17 years of experience optimizing engineering workflows and shipping high-impact web platforms. He combines deep hands-on skills across backend and frontend systems with a keen focus on developer experience and CI—at Teachable he led an org-wide CI rethink and a checkout rewrite that added ~$40M/year. As CEO of Yotty and founder of Ludicast he blends product thinking with pragmatic engineering, and his open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements to the yamldb Rails plugin to support multi-file dumps and pluggable serializers. A former NYC firefighter, Nate brings calm, operational discipline to complex technical problems and now applies that rigor at OnsiteIQ from his base in Brookhaven, NY.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Storm King SchoolBA English (Minor in German), BA English (Minor in German) at University at BuffaloGraduate Work Computer Science, Graduate Work Computer Science at Columbia UniversityStuyvesant High School
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Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
yaml10
ruby10
rspec9
dependency-injection8
sinatra6
coffeescript6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yamldb/yaml_db
Jul 2009 - Nov 2014
Rails plugin for a database-independent dump format, data.yml .......... Seeking new maintainers! See https://github.com/yamldb/yaml_db/issues/143
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on enhancing the `yaml_db` Rails plugin. They added functionalities related to multi-file YAML dumps, creating a new interface to handle the dumping of data into multiple files. Additionally, they refactored the codebase to utilize dependency injection, allowing for the integration of different data serialization formats beyond YAML. These changes involved modifications to both the core library and the testing specifications.
databaserails
ludicast/angle-up
Dec 2011 - Dec 2018
helpers for angular.js
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 1 month
angularjs
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