Nathan Baschez
Founder at Lex
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNathan Baschez is a founder and product leader with a decade of experience building consumer-facing web products and startups, currently leading Lex after founding and selling Scratchpad to General Assembly. He created Dash at GA, a free web-course used by over 250,000 learners, and has held senior product roles at Substack and Gimlet where he scaled editorial and creator-facing products. Hands-on from UX to front-end engineering, he contributed to React component documentation and testing for the daisyUI ecosystem, reflecting a pragmatic focus on component-driven development and reliability. Known for joining teams early (Olark’s employee #2) and wearing many hats, he blends entrepreneurial grit with product craft and an affinity for making complex workflows feel simple.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy Philosophy, BA Political Theory & Constitutional Democracy Philosophy at Michigan State University
Stackoverflow
561reputation
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
component-library10
react10
storybook9
tailwindcss9
uikit8
css8
jestjs8
ui-design8
firebase6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
cloud9-ide6
nodejs6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daisyui/react-daisyui
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
daisyUI components built with React 🌼
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the documentation and testing of React-based UI components. They added Storybook stories for various components, including Hero, Mask, and InputGroup, demonstrating an understanding of component-driven development. Additionally, the user wrote tests for the Modal, Radio, Range, and Toggle components, ensuring functionality and reliability. Their work focused on expanding the component library's documentation and improving its testing coverage.
css-componentsbuilt-with-reacttailwindcsstailwindpostcss
redxzeta/gloaltraqs-frontend
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
React Frontend
Contributions:1 PR, 99 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year 5 months
reactreact-frontendreact18frontendreactjs
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