Nathan Friedly
Software Engineer at FullStoryDev
Troy, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Friedly is a hands-on staff software engineer and founder with over 16 years of experience building and leading remote teams to ship high-scale web, mobile, and systems software. A recognized JavaScript/Node.js expert (top 1% historically) and prolific open-source maintainer—author of express-rate-limit and set-cookie-parser—his modules are downloaded tens of millions of times monthly and have influenced production systems widely. He blends full-stack TypeScript/Node expertise with growing Rust and mobile (Objective-C/Swift, Kotlin, Flutter) work, and has contributed to Node.js core and IBM Watson projects. Nathan is passionate about engineering culture, automation, and pragmatic delivery, and brings uncommon breadth from embedded/IoT to backend services and LLM experimentation in a 144GB home lab. Based in Troy, Ohio, he balances leadership and individual-contributor roles and is comfortable stepping into whatever role a team needs to get results.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (38)
compatible10
javascript10
rate-limiting10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
css10
http10
user-interface10
browser-support10
api10
html10
nodejs10
react10
image9
safari9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
express-rate-limit/express-rate-limit
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Basic rate-limiting middleware for the Express web server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 236 reviews, 310 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `express-rate-limit` middleware. Their work included fixing bugs related to `NaN` hits, implementing new features such as a `delayAfter` option and customizable status codes, and refactoring the codebase. The user also made improvements to the documentation and test suite, indicating a focus on improving the usability and reliability of the project.
middlewarerate-limitingwebserverapirest-api
nfriedly/node-unblocker
Mar 2011 - Jan 2023
Web proxy for evading internet censorship, and general-purpose Node.js library for proxying and rewriting remote webpages
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 485 commits, 106 PRs in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the web proxy's functionality. Their contributions included adding support for decompressing gzipped data, expanding support for HTTPS servers, and implementing session-based cookie handling to improve user experience. They also implemented changes to URL rewriting and added new features.
nodejs-libraryweb-proxy
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