Nathan Sher
Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Sher is a software engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience and an academic foundation in Computer Software Engineering from UNSW. Currently at Atlassian, he combines front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used ProseMirror prosemirror-tables module—with strong interpersonal skills honed through diverse customer-facing roles in retail and security. He prefers pragmatic, well-crafted solutions and values collaboration, believing the best outcomes come from skilled teams working together. Nathan’s background shows a pattern of returning to and growing within engineering roles, reflecting both technical commitment and adaptability. Outside of core product work he’s focused on robust selection and table-handling logic in rich-text editors, a niche but impactful area for user-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (4)
front-end-development10
javascript10
prosemirror10
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ProseMirror/prosemirror-tables
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Table module for ProseMirror
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the `prosemirror-tables` module by implementing and refining cell selection behavior within tables. Their changes include handling text selections across cells, addressing selection normalization, and ensuring proper table role handling during cell insertions. The contributions involved fixing table-related issues, improving the selection logic, and enhancing the module's overall robustness.
prosemirror
AusDTO/gov-au-transitions-alpha
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:103 commits, 24 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 months
reacttransitions
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