Nathan Yam
Software Engineer at SuperAPI
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Yam is a full-stack software engineer with 9 years’ experience building scalable web applications and leading engineering efforts across startups and product teams. Based in Melbourne, he has strong expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, and Elixir/Phoenix, and a proven track record designing AWS architectures (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, SQS). He moved between hands-on development and technical leadership at PlayHQ and SuperAPI, shipping features from UI improvements to backend migrations— including porting a Slack bot engine from Rails to Elixir to boost performance and reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and markdown tooling in community projects like nyaa, and brings a pragmatic focus on uptime via OTP and supervised processes. Colleagues rely on him for practical systems thinking that spans front-end polish to cloud-native integrations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Science at Monash University
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
jinja210
flask-ask9
flask9
python9
ui-design9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
animate5
bittorrent3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nyaadevs/nyaa
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Bittorrent software for cats
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 24 days
Contributions summary:Nathan implemented and enhanced the user interface for the nyaa repository, adding features like a markdown editor for descriptions in the upload and edit torrent pages. The changes involved modifying HTML templates, CSS styles, and JavaScript to create a user-friendly preview feature within the markdown editor. Furthermore, they improved the search bar presentation and fixed the filter and category display.
bittorrentnyaatorrentpythonelasticsearch
armindrnda/armindrnda.github.io
Dec 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 3 months
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