Nathaniel Cook
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Cook is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, styled user experiences and resilient back-end systems. He blends React-driven front-end design with Go, GraphQL, and PSQL expertise, and has substantial production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud platforms like GCP and Azure. At Target he helped rewrite observability UIs into a federated platform, integrated an open-source on-call system (GoAlert), and mentored early-career engineers while shipping micro-frontend tooling and shared component libraries. He contributes to notable open-source UI work—improving multi-day event handling in the popular react-big-calendar—highlighting attention to edge cases in complex interfaces. Now based in San Pablo and thriving in small Agile teams, he focuses on delivering pragmatic, accessible components that balance polish with operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Edison State CollegeBachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Graduated, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Graduated at Florida Gulf Coast University
English
Github Skills (8)
datetime10
javascript10
dates10
datetimes10
date-manipulation10
react10
manipulation10
styled-components9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jquense/react-big-calendar
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
gcal/outlook like calendar component
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nathaniel primarily focused on enhancing the calendar component's display of multi-day events. Their contributions involved modifying the `DayColumn`, `TimeGrid`, and `Calendar` components to correctly handle events spanning multiple days, ensuring proper start and end times are displayed. They also introduced a configuration option to control the visibility of time slots for multi-day events. Additionally, the user refined the formatting of time ranges within the calendar views.
calendar-componentcalendaroutlookcalendar-widgetgcal
Forfold/forfold
Jul 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 10 months
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