Nathan Simpson
Frontend Developer at Atlassian
Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Simpson is a frontend developer with a decade of experience crafting design systems and user-focused web products, currently building interfaces at Atlassian in Sydney. He blends visual design training with hands-on frontend engineering, having led design-system work for a major bank and accessibility-focused systems for the Australian government while mentoring junior engineers. A practical open-source contributor, Nathan has improved calendar and date-picker components in well-known projects like KeystoneJS and react-native-calendars, demonstrating attention to accessible, reusable UI components. He’s comfortable across web and mobile front-ends, from shipping favicons and analytics fixes to implementing a year-picker in complex date pickers. Based in regional NSW, he pairs a designer’s eye with production-grade coding discipline and a history of proposing architecture improvements that streamline product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The Navigator Entrepeneurship, The Navigator Entrepeneurship at SSE - Sydney School of EntrepreneurshipNSW HSC, NSW HSC at Orange Christian SchoolEngineering Chapter Program, Engineering Chapter Program at Folklore VenturesBachelor's Degree Design (Visual Communication), Bachelor's Degree Design (Visual Communication) at Western Sydney University
English
Github Skills (18)
cms10
javascript10
react-native10
ui-components10
date-fns10
html10
react10
calendars9
wpgraphql9
react-select9
wordpress-graphql9
nodejs9
graphql9
css7
gatsby5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone
Aug 2018 - May 2019
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 103 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the UI components, specifically focusing on the implementation of a year-picker component within the DayPicker. They made changes to the existing DayPicker.js file, adding functionality to select the year, month, and also refactored some code. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing select options. The user also made changes to the Filter.js and Field.js files for the calendar and date time pickers.
graphqlheadless-cmsnodejsreactcms
keystonejs/keystone-classic
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Node.js CMS and web app framework
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 13 PRs, 4 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the front-end of the KeystoneJS project. Their work focused on enhancing the website's user interface, implementing features like favicons and Google Analytics integration. The contributions involved modifying React components and HTML structure to improve the website's presentation and functionality, including fixing broken links and tweaking the content. These changes were implemented in the "website" directory, which indicates a focus on the project's user-facing components.
app-frameworkcmsnodejskeystonejsjavascript
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