Nathan Fairhurst
Principal Software Engineer at Nike
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Fairhurst is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Nike from Beaverton, Oregon. He blends a relentless curiosity and a knack for rapid skill acquisition with practical engineering, focusing on designing systems that are testable and robust by default. His background spans QA automation for Node.js to leading engineering teams, giving him a strong appreciation for quality, observability, and developer ergonomics. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-platform BLE support in the Rust btleplug library and fixed payload validation and custom error handling in the Elixir Joken JWT library. Prior roles in customer-facing product support and filmmaker/VFX work give him an unusual mix of technical empathy and creative problem-solving. Colleagues describe him as dynamic and personable, thriving on hard challenges and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorâs Degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelorâs Degree Business Administration and Management General at Western Washington University
Github Skills (15)
bluetooth-le10
rust10
bluetooth-low-energy10
serde10
elixir10
bluetooth10
jwt10
testing10
api-design9
linux9
version-control9
git9
macos8
windows8
android8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
deviceplug/btleplug
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Rust Cross-Platform Host-Side Bluetooth LE Access Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 14 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the `btleplug` library's functionality and stability, especially concerning Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interactions. They added features such as serialization and deserialization support using `serde`, controlled via a feature flag. Moreover, the user addressed critical issues within the BlueZ implementation, resolving indication handling bugs. They also made adjustments to the code to align the library with documentation and improve overall stability.
hostwindowsrustbluetooth-lebluetooth
joken-elixir/joken
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Elixir JWT library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the Elixir JWT library by addressing a bug related to payload validation and including corresponding tests. They also incremented the library's version, updated the changelog, and merged in updates, resolving merge conflicts in the process. Furthermore, the user added new functionality, extending the validation mechanism to include custom error messages.
elixirjwtjoken
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