Nathan Broadbent
Founder at DocSpring
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNathan Broadbent is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 16 years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently leading DocSpring, a developer-focused PDF form filling and signing tool. He combines hands-on expertise across Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React/React Native, Swift, and modern frameworks like Next.js and Svelte with practical DevOps skills in AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. Nathan has a history of shipping production systems and infrastructure—migrating services to AWS, building mobile backends, and running scalable SaaS—as well as contributing thoughtful fixes and tests to prominent open-source projects such as Travis CI, Errbit, and several cross-platform React Native modules. Comfortable moving between front-end UI polish and low-level backend robustness, he also has a knack for improving developer experience—evidenced by contributions to tooling like craco and SCM Breeze. Based in Auckland, he blends entrepreneurial product focus with deep engineering craftsmanship and a taste for solving tricky edge cases in real-world systems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
QBASIC Visual Basic Ruby on Rails, QBASIC Visual Basic Ruby on Rails at Self-taught, Internship at Crossroads Foundation
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (89)
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gtk10
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ruby-on-rails10
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Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
fatfreecrm/fat_free_crm
Aug 2010 - Dec 2013
Ruby on Rails CRM platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1522 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan appears to be a back-end developer who primarily contributed to the development of a Ruby on Rails CRM platform. Their work involved creating a plugin generator for RSpec testing, ensuring correct plugin loading order, and modifying configuration files. This developer also refactored code related to email processing, which required working with IMAP and potentially database interactions to parse content.
crmruby-on-rails
icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader
May 2016 - Nov 2020
A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 255 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to improving the stability and functionality of the iCloud Photos Downloader tool. Their work focused on addressing error handling, specifically when downloads were unavailable, and implemented a retry mechanism for failed downloads. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase, switching from `docopt` to `click` for argument parsing and help text, enhancing usability. These changes collectively improved the tool's robustness and user experience.
command-line-toolicloud
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