Nathan Sobo

Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Summary

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Nathan Sobo is a founder and seasoned software leader with 18 years of experience building developer tools and consumer-facing editors from the ground up. Based in Boulder, he founded Zed Industries after a decade-plus tenure at GitHub where he helped create the Atom editor and the Electron framework, and he has deep full-stack chops from contributions that span core editor features to nuanced UI behavior. Nathan briefly led engineering at Warp while licensing technology, then returned to entrepreneurship to ship a high-performance, multiplayer code editor drawing on his Atom and Tree-sitter roots. His open-source work demonstrates a practical focus on improving editor ergonomics—cursor movement, keybindings, and interactive UI elements—while his career blends leadership, product instincts, and hands-on engineering.

18 years of coding experience

Github Skills (15)

atom-editor10

editors10

uid10

javascript10

rust10

front-end-development10

coffeescript10

ui-design10

gpu10

editor10

electron10

regex9

macos8

linux8

windows8

Programming languages (15)

PowerShellC++CSSRustCGoTypeScriptCoffeeScript

Github contributions (5)

zed-industries/zed

Jan 2024 - Jul 2026

Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:7 reviews, 170 PRs, 545 pushes in 2 years 6 months

Contributions summary:Nathan's commits focus on UI component styling and modification within the Zed code editor. The contributions include refining hover and pressable elements' behavior, such as calculating bounds and handling events. The changes primarily involve modifying existing code, specifically related to the elements of the user interface.

code-editormultiplayertree-sittertext-editorzed

atom/atom

Mar 2012 - Jul 2012

:atom: The hackable text editor

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:29 releases, 36 commits, 620 PRs in 3 months

Contributions summary:Nathan contributed significantly to the Atom text editor, implementing new functionality and addressing existing features. The commits demonstrate the addition of features related to regex matching and cursor movement, which involved modifying both CoffeeScript and JavaScript files. Furthermore, the user's work included enhancements to editor features and keybindings, impacting core editor functionality.

text-editoratomeditorjavascriptelectron

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