Nathan Gass
Senior Software Engineer at localsearch (Swisscom Directories AG)
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNathan Gass is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bern, Switzerland with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems for consumer-facing search and directory services. He has long-term senior engineering roles at localsearch (Swisscom Directories) and search.ch, combining production-grade service development with pragmatic architectural improvements. Nathan contributes to notable open-source tooling—improving Pandoc’s LaTeX reader/writer to add natbib and biblatex support—showing attention to interoperability and document processing edge cases. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy and Sciences, a background that surfaces in careful, analytical problem solving and an interest in precise, well-documented code.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 6.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 6.0 at University of Bern
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Github Skills (34)
lucene10
unit-testing10
javascript10
mapbox-gl10
converter10
typescript10
information-retrieval10
java10
searching10
javas10
latex10
pandoc10
typescript-types10
maplibre-gl10
typescripts10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jgm/pandoc
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
Universal markup converter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the LaTeX writer functionality within the Pandoc project. They added support for `natbib` and `biblatex` citation commands in the LaTeX output, allowing for more flexible bibliography handling. Furthermore, they implemented support for LaTeX citation commands within the LaTeX reader, improving the software's ability to parse and interpret LaTeX documents. These changes demonstrate a commitment to improving the compatibility and functionality of Pandoc's LaTeX processing capabilities.
pandocmarkup-converterpublishingpresentationcommonmark
xabbu42/psr
Oct 2010 - Apr 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
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