Nathan Amick
AI Engineer & Technical Mentor at Self-Employed
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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SeniorNathan Amick is a product-focused engineering leader and serial founder with over 14 years of professional experience and more than two decades coding across full stacks. As CoFounder and CTO he builds cloud-native, scalable platforms—most recently a token-based instant multiplayer hosting system using Next.js, React Server Components and Kubernetes on Google Cloud. His background spans HIPAA-compliant genomic platforms, white-labeled React Native apps, and supply-chain transparency systems, often improving performance and deployment speed through microservices and CI automation. He mentors teams in modern front-end tooling (React, Tailwind, Shadcn/UI) and has shipped AI-driven features integrating OpenAI and server-sent events to streamline workflows. An active Rails contributor, he implemented reversible ActiveRecord ID obfuscation in open source, revealing a practical focus on secure, pragmatic engineering. Based in Indianapolis, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on architecture and product sensibility to move ideas into production quickly.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,143reputation
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rspec
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rubygems
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (13)
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby-on-rails9
rubygems9
algorithm9
rspec9
algorithms9
database7
databases7
rbenv6
rspec-rails6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
namick/obfuscate_id
Jan 2012 - Apr 2015
Make your ActiveRecord ids non-obvious. Mixes up record ids in a simple, reversible hashing algorithm so that it can then automatically revert the hashed number back to the original id for record lookup without having to store a hash or tag in the database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 62 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on implementing features related to obfuscating ActiveRecord IDs within a Rails application. Their contributions included adding methods to update `find` and `to_param` methods to support ID obfuscation. The user also added a hashing mechanism with a scatter-swap algorithm, demonstrating a focus on developing core functionality. This work involved modifying models, controllers, routes, and views to integrate the ID obfuscation logic.
activerecorddatabasehashing-algorithm
charleyhine/applesauce
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Electron exploration
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 6 months
javascriptnodejselectron
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