Nathan Muir is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building SaaS products for trades and fleet industries from Greater Brisbane. He leads Groundplan, a cloud takeoff, estimation, and quoting platform that replaces paper workflows for electrical, plumbing, HVAC, security, and roofing contractors, focusing on UX-first design and seamless integrations. Nathan combines full-stack engineering chops with product instincts—his open-source contributions include substantive fixes and features to the Meteor platform and performance-focused SVG optimizations in SVGO. He has deep backend and database experience (Postgres/MySQL migrations, reporting engines, APIs) from prior roles at simPRO and simTRAC, and a track record of turning complex domain workflows into practical, browser-based tools. An operator at heart, he values automations that save time, reduce costs, and remove paper from field workflows.
Contributions:60 commits, 19 PRs, 89 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan made significant contributions to the Meteor JavaScript platform, focusing on both backend and frontend aspects. Their work includes bug fixes within the core minimongo package, enhancements to the accounts-oauth system (specifically Google OAuth), and updates to core DDP client functionality. Furthermore, the user added features to the login process, including the ability to specify redirect URLs, and improved the underlying internal mechanisms for buffered writes. These changes demonstrate expertise across the full stack.
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the optimization and enhancement of SVG file processing within the SVGO tool. Their work involved refactoring the code, fixing issues related to merging paths and handling transforms, and converting path data for improved performance. They addressed specific problems such as collapsing groups with respect to clip paths and ensuring correct application of transforms, improving the tool's reliability. Furthermore, they worked on applying transforms, applying transforms to stroked lines, and overall performance.
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