Nathan Pointer
Founding Engineer at Klear Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Pointer is a pragmatic, award-winning Founding Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years building React.js front-ends and event-driven microservices for startups and enterprise teams. He has led efforts to modernize architectures—driving serverless data pipelines, scalable privacy APIs, and multi-team delivery—while shipping production systems at Nike, Cambia, and K Health. Comfortable across JavaScript/Node, Python, Java, AWS, and databases from Postgres to DynamoDB, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and technical leadership. He’s equally at home crafting responsive React/Redux experiences and designing backend services, and his early work on an interactive 3D mapping app earned a regional communications award—evidence of a developer who cares about both technical quality and user impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Oregon
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Github Skills (95)
render10
animation10
fiddle10
renderer10
react-renderer9
fiber9
threejs9
react-three-fiber9
react9
3d8
webgl8
gatsby7
parcel7
authentication7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nwpointer/starLegions
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
A space MMORPG with a dash of retro!
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
nwpointer/three-landscape
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
React-three-fiber compatible abstractions that make it easier to render high quality landscapes scenes
Contributions:2 reviews, 44 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
renderreactwebglfiberreact-three-fiber
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