Nathan Schulzke
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Amplify
American Fork, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Schulzke is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience stabilizing and iterating on large legacy full‑stack applications at small, fast-moving companies. Based in American Fork, Utah, he currently serves as the primary full‑stack engineer at Amplify, consistently delivering new features while driving reliability improvements. He has progressed through multiple senior engineering roles and brings practical expertise across backend, frontend, and data integrity concerns. Nathan also contributes to open-source mobile software—adding a thoughtful "mark as watched" feature to the popular NewPipe Android client that handled tricky edge cases like live streams and missing durations. Known for balancing feature velocity with technical stewardship, he combines a lifelong curiosity about computers with a pragmatic approach to long‑running codebases.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Utah Valley UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
android10
java10
rxjavafx9
rxjava9
android-ui9
database-api8
databases8
database8
kotlin7
gradle6
gson6
360-video6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the NewPipe Android app by implementing a "mark as watched" feature for video streams. This involved modifications across multiple files to integrate the feature into the UI (feed and playlist fragments) and backend logic to update the database with the video's watched status and duration. The user also addressed edge cases such as handling live streams and fetching video durations when unavailable, demonstrating a focus on user experience and data integrity.
androidfrontendyoutube-videovideonewpipe
mycojs/myco
May 2023 - Jul 2026
Myco runtime for JS
Contributions:63 PRs, 86 pushes, 60 branches in 3 years 3 months
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