Nathan Dane
Senior Software Engineer at Rockstar Games
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Dane is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edinburgh with a decade of experience building mobile apps, embedded IoT systems, and production blockchain solutions using Ethereum, Solidity, Hyperledger Fabric and Sawtooth. He blends hands-on iOS and cross-platform development (Objective-C, Swift, C/C++) with systems-level firmware and real-time RTOS work, having shipped consumer apps, IoT products and games across multiple platforms. As Technical Director of Blockchainers CIC and former Head of R&D, he crafts accessible blockchain training and leads community-focused developer workshops while maintaining commercial R&D and principal engineering roles. Currently at Rockstar Games, he pairs product-scale engineering with a proven track record of mentoring teams, designing scalable architectures, and advising startups on technical strategy and fundraising. Off hours he pursues playful experiments—his GitHub notes quirky teletext projects—reflecting a curiosity for vintage interfaces alongside cutting-edge distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology at Hopwood Hall MiddletonApplied Computing (BSc), Applied Computing (BSc) at The Manchester Metropolitan University
Github Skills (66)
psr-010
adaptation10
audio10
ffmpeg10
dom-parser10
broadcasting9
recording9
obs9
screen-capture9
digital-signage9
streaming9
video-recording9
live-streaming9
poweroff9
broadcast9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avrovulcanxh607/vbit-pi3
Mar 2019 - May 2024
Teletext inserter board for the Raspberry Pi
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
raspberry-piraspberryteletextraspberrypiboard
nat2001/simplenews
May 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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