Nathan Totten
Co-founder & VP Of Marketing at Zuplo
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Totten is a product and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building developer tools, APIs, and docs for companies from Microsoft and Auth0 to Salesforce and Zuplo. As a co-founder and former CTO of Zuplo, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Prettier’s VS Code extension—with strategic product leadership that shipped tooling used by millions. He has deep customer empathy and a track record of forming and scaling teams across product, developer experience, and documentation. At Salesforce he led platform tooling including VS Code extensions and CLIs; at Auth0 he built documentation and customer success functions from the ground up. Known for instrumenting telemetry and improving developer workflows, he pairs metrics-driven decisions with practical engineering chops. Based in Oregon, he combines startup founder grit with enterprise product chops and a persistent focus on making developer experiences delightful.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Economics at The University of Iowa Tippie College of Business
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Github Skills (41)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
facebook-sdk10
api-design10
lwc10
typescript10
facebook-graph-api10
vscode-extension10
text-formatting10
facebook10
netframework10
pretier10
apex10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
prettier/prettier-vscode
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Visual Studio Code extension for Prettier
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 22 reviews, 529 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to the Prettier VS Code extension, implementing new features and addressing bugs. Their commits focused on improving the extension's functionality, specifically by integrating with different linters like ESLint and TSLint. The user was also responsible for setting up the telemetry for the extension. Furthermore, they made updates to incorporate new features and configurations related to the Prettier module and its interactions with the VS Code environment.
visual-studio-code-extensionformattertypescriptvisual-studio-code
forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 115 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily focused on enhancing the Salesforce DX VS Code extension. Their contributions include improvements to the creation of various Salesforce components (LWC, Visualforce, etc.), including unique naming. They also instrumented command execution time tracking for better telemetry and modified the default scratch org alias behavior for improved usability within the VS Code environment. Furthermore, the user worked on updating the project's documentation and analytics integrations.
salesforcevscodetypescriptvscode-extensionvscode-debugger
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