Nathaniel Blackburn
Full Stack Engineer at UniHomes
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorNathaniel Blackburn is a Full Stack Engineer based in Lancaster with 11 years of experience crafting user-centered web and mobile experiences that bring people together for good. He combines front-end UI expertise with backend and deployment skills, having stabilised codebases, built CI/CD pipelines, and expanded RESTful APIs across healthcare and analytics products. At Relative Insight he led the dashboard’s technical direction, mentored the team, and introduced robust workflows like semantic versioning, RFCs and automated changelogs. He’s contributed to the popular Astro framework by improving its Vercel integration and deployment configurations, demonstrating practical open-source impact on content-driven sites. Comfortable across serverless, edge and static deployments, he focuses on shipping reliable, accessible interfaces and empowering teams through documentation and process improvements.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
vercel10
astrojs10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
serverless-functions8
nodejs8
static-site-generation7
internet-explorer6
pushbullet6
svg6
api6
php6
vue6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
withastro/astro
Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily contributed to the Vercel integration for the Astro framework. Their work involved fixing environment variable issues related to Vercel analytics, injecting the analytics environment variables and updating the adapter setup for both serverless, edge and static deployments. They also addressed configuration aspects related to building the project with Vercel, ensuring proper setup for build and deployment.
islandisland-architectureastrobrowserfaster
nblackburn/laravel-parsedown
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
A parsedown wrapper for Laravel and Lumen.
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 1 month
phplumenlaravel-packagelaravellumen-framework
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