Nathan Wallace
Senior Software Developer at Second Generation, Ltd.
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Wallace is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of full-stack experience, currently driving architecture and delivery at Second Generation, Ltd. He blends pragmatic engineering with strong design instincts—favoring test-driven development, flexible architectures, and careful tradeoff analysis to build maintainable systems. His background spans Ruby on Rails, React, asynchronous processing, and integrations with REST/SOAP partners, including hands-on work building a domain registrar from scratch. An active open-source contributor, he has improved user experience and robustness in the popular passff browser extension and strengthened test suites in the Exercism Clojure exercises. Trained in neuroscience and computer science, he pairs analytical curiosity with a continuous-learning mindset that surfaces practical, user-focused improvements behind the scenes.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
javascript10
firefox-webextension10
clojure-cli10
browser-extension10
testing10
firefox-addon10
clojure10
password-manager10
webextension10
test-driven-design9
tracks9
lisp8
ui-design8
css7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
passff/passff
Oct 2015 - May 2017
Read-only mirror of https://codeberg.org/PassFF/passff Pull requests and issues on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nathan significantly contributed to the passff Firefox extension, primarily focusing on enhancing its functionality and user interface. They implemented new features such as the "New" button for adding passwords and options for controlling the enter key behavior. The user also made improvements to the extension's styling, preferences, and error handling, including displaying comprehensive password data and providing dismissable error messages. These changes indicate a focus on improving user experience and expanding the extension's capabilities.
password-storefirefoxopera-extensionjavascriptzx2c4-pass
exercism/clojure
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
Exercism exercises in Clojure.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nathan contributed significantly to the test suite within the Clojure Exercism repository. They enhanced the testing of phone number and robot-name exercises by adding new test cases and refactoring existing tests. This includes writing tests for various aspects of the phone number formatting, area code, and full US phone number. Additionally, the user addressed a bug related to robot name generation by ensuring that robot names are not hardcoded and are reset correctly.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackclojurescriptlispexercism
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