Nathan Power
Staff Software Engineer at Wayflyer
Ireland
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Top SchoolNathan Power is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ireland with 11 years building enterprise web applications, specialising in Node.js and React. He has progressed through hands-on product engineering roles into staff-level leadership at Wayflyer, delivering scalable features and driving frontend/backend cohesion. A pragmatic engineer, Nathan contributes to open-source React tooling—improving text highlighting robustness for accented characters and adding sanitization and tests—showing attention to edge cases that often escape production systems. His background includes long tenures at nearForm and IBM, reflecting a blend of startup agility and enterprise-grade engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
St. Pauls Community CollegeB.Sc. Software Systems Development, Computer Software Engineering, 1:1, B.Sc. Software Systems Development, Computer Software Engineering, 1:1 at Waterford Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
component-development10
javascript10
react10
testing10
text-manipulation9
java6
breeze6
asp-net6
azure-sql-database6
azure6
mongodb6
translation6
android6
webstorm6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bvaughn/react-highlight-words
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
React component to highlight words within a larger body of text
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and robustness of a React component for highlighting words. They focused on improving the component's ability to handle accented characters and ensuring proper string handling to avoid unintended mutations. The user also injected a dependency to provide string sanitization and refactored the code to improve its efficiency and usability. Finally, the user added tests to ensure component works correctly.
react-component
nathanpower/blog
Oct 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 11 months
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