Nathan Hawes
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Hawes is a software engineer with nearly a decade of experience building developer tooling from editor UX to compiler internals, having shipped features at Apple and Oracle Labs. He blends systems-level expertise in C/C++, Swift, and compiler toolchains (Clang/LLVM, LLDB) with practical web frontend and backend skills, delivering code-completion, navigation and large-codebase analysis tools. Notable open-source contributions include enabling Swift support in LLDB and improving clang index-store functionality, plus infrastructure work on the Swift source compatibility suite. Based in Brisbane, he is a fast learner who prefers remote, part-time roles and brings a track record of improving developer productivity through robust automation, testing, and build-system fixes.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Systems, GPA 6.7 on a scale of 1.0-7.0 with 7.0 being the highest, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Systems, GPA 6.7 on a scale of 1.0-7.0 with 7.0 being the highest at Queensland University of Technology
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (26)
c-language10
scripting10
compiler-development10
module-loader10
build-system10
lldb10
automation10
script10
lazy-loading10
resource-loading10
sh10
swift10
automations10
shell10
clangd10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-source-compat-suite
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
The infrastructure and project index comprising the Swift source compatibility suite.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 86 commits, 78 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on improving the build and testing infrastructure of the Swift source compatibility suite. Their contributions include adding a script for stress testing SourceKit, modifying build configurations for specific scenarios, and implementing features for conditional test execution based on build configurations and compatibility versions. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue with passing arguments in the build process.
swift
apple/swift-clang
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nathan's contributions primarily involve modifications to the Clang compiler, specifically focusing on the index store functionality. They addressed build breakages, introduced features like the `GenModuleActionWrapper`, and fixed merge conflicts. The user also made changes related to index store role enums and associated utilities.
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