Nathan Booker
Co-Founder & CPO at Runtype
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Booker is a product-focused technology leader and co-founder with 10 years of experience building developer-first SaaS and commerce platforms from support desk to C-suite. As Co-Founder & CPO at Runtype he specializes in taking AI products from demo to production scale, drawing on a deep background in APIs, web performance, and composable commerce. Previously he led developer-facing platform strategy and launched Catalyst at BigCommerce, negotiated strategic partnerships, and drove the Makeswift acquisition to broaden the product’s TAM. Nathan pairs hands-on front-end contributions—such as performance and UX improvements to BigCommerce’s widely used Cornerstone theme—with senior product strategy and technical program leadership. Based in Austin, he combines an engineering mindset rooted in an aerospace education with practical experience closing the gap between prototype and production. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic integrator who makes developer experience a competitive advantage.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
exp10
html10
user-experience10
lazy-loading9
lazyload9
graphql6
bulk-update6
api6
php6
rest6
price6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce/cornerstone
Feb 2017 - Sep 2022
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 138 commits, 171 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the BigCommerce Cornerstone theme. Their contributions involved implementing features such as automatically opening the review form, expanding product videos, and integrating lazy loading for images. They also addressed bug fixes related to over-escaping of HTML, and improvements to the display of product information, and the functionality of the cart. They further optimized performance through reducing font downloads and use of srcset for images.
bigcommerceecommercecornerstone
bookernath/cornerstone
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Contributions:3 PRs, 169 pushes, 75 branches in 3 years 3 months
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