Nathan Barrett
Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Barrett is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland with eight years of experience building fast, accessible web experiences, currently working on Firefox New Tab at Mozilla. He has substantial full‑stack Django experience from maintaining and modernizing mozilla.org—an open-source site serving millions—where he updated templates, media handling, and front-end components. Comfortable across React/React Native, Rails backends, and large legacy codebases, he brings practical polish to both UI and server-side concerns. A lifelong reader and coffee enthusiast, he pairs a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach with a history of contributing to high-profile open-source projects.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Front-End Web Development: CSS Javascript Angular JQuery and React. Front-End Web Development, Certificate in Front-End Web Development: CSS Javascript Angular JQuery and React. Front-End Web Development at EpicodusHistory & Political Science Social Sciences, History & Political Science Social Sciences at Augsburg University
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/bedrock
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:444 reviews, 116 commits, 286 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily worked on the `mozilla/bedrock` repository, making contributions to both front-end and back-end code. They deprecated hero components and updated Django template macros to incorporate video media, modifying both the front-end templates and the associated styling and data. These updates demonstrate a good understanding of the front-end and back-end and the structure of the Django web framework. Additionally, there were contributions to update the front end for various website features.
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nathan-barrett/bedrock
Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
Making mozilla.org awesome, one pebble at a time
Contributions:146 pushes, 49 branches in 2 years 4 months
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