Nathan Tyler
Founder at NSquared
Pasadena, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Tyler is a serial technical founder and CEO with over 16 years of hands-on experience building web businesses, SaaS products, and WordPress plugins used by tens of thousands of sites. He founded StagingPilot (acquired by Pantheon), leads NSquared and BlinkMetrics, and co-created high-rated plugins like Simply Schedule Appointments and Draw Attention that demonstrate a knack for product-market fit. Equally comfortable in code and strategy, he’s contributed backend improvements to CakePHP open-source tooling, showing deep practical knowledge of file management and MVC patterns. Based in Pasadena, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade system architecture that’s been adopted by Fortune 250 customers, and often turns operational pain points—updates, accessibility audits, reporting—into repeatable SaaS solutions.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics for Business and Management, Bachelor's degree, Economics for Business and Management at Occidental College
Github Skills (8)
php10
cakephp10
file-management10
mvc9
view-helpers8
form-helper8
behavior8
helper-methods8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfCake/cakephp-upload
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
CakePHP: Handle file uploading sans ridiculous automagic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed to a CakePHP-based file upload plugin. Their commits focused on correcting file path handling, adding essential files for plugin functionality, and implementing the core MVC structure. The user also enhanced the upload behavior by adding functionality to delete files and create helper functions for the form and HTML generation of the upload fields. The user's work demonstrates a strong understanding of file management and CakePHP's architecture.
cakephp
jedt/spark_plug
Apr 2010 - Oct 2010
Spark Plug Cakephp plugin is a user management and admin section using authsome and a simple acl.
Contributions:37 commits in 5 months
cakephpspark
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