Nathan Salter
Lead Developer at Playfinder
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNathan Salter is a Senior Product Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building PHP/MySQL web applications for teams ranging from small agencies to larger product organisations. He has led backend development and product engineering at Playfinder and now contributes to product delivery at Arbor Education, with a track record of architecting performant systems—such as a bespoke search engine processing millions of products with sub-200ms results and a stock system handling millions of daily records. Comfortable across the full stack, Nathan excels at turning complex requirements into pragmatic, maintainable solutions and has repeatedly automated detection and fixes for recurring production bugs. Based in the UK with a Computer Science degree from the University of Hertfordshire, he blends solid legacy-stack expertise with a product-focused mindset that favors measurable performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
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Github Skills (111)
api-platform10
hypermedia10
composer10
bundle10
api10
rest10
hal10
php10
json-ld10
php-framework9
stream9
swagger9
rest-api9
graphql9
dependency-manager9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nathansalter/models-php
Apr 2020 - Apr 2022
PHP Models for the OpenActive Opportunity and Booking Specifications
Contributions:8 PRs, 13 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 11 months
opportunityrefactormauticphpprestashop-module
nathansalter/genetic-algorithm
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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