Nathan Stilwell
Senior Frontend Engineer at Bilt Rewards
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Stilwell is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in New York City with 13 years of experience building polished, scalable web interfaces and developer tooling. He blends open-source technologies into production-ready UIs, notably contributing to the CockroachDB console—improving Jest-based testing, jsdom/enzyme integrations, and asset handling for a major distributed SQL database. His career spans fast-moving startups and established teams (Bilt Rewards, Cockroach Labs, Flow, Meetup, Gilt), and includes founding a product prototype that used React/Redux and modern build systems. Nathan pairs hands-on implementation skills with a pragmatic focus on testability and developer experience, and he’s currently not seeking new opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Harding University
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
ui-design10
usertesting10
uid10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
react10
web-testing10
cockroachdb9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:125 reviews, 230 commits, 111 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the UI components of the CockroachDB console, focusing on the integration of Jest for testing. Their work involved setting up Jest configurations, refactoring tests, and addressing issues related to test environment setup, particularly with jsdom and enzyme. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to address asset handling within the testing framework, ensuring the correct behavior of the UI components. The user also contributed to refactoring and correcting assertions in tests.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
nathanstilwell/functions
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
A collection of utility functions for fun and profit
Contributions:4 releases, 45 commits, 41 PRs in 2 months
profitutility-functionsfor-fun
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