Nicholas Frostbutter
Cofounder & CTO at Decal Labs
United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Frostbutter is a Cofounder & CTO with five years of software and developer-experience leadership, currently building Decal Labs after shaping tooling and docs at the Solana Foundation. He blends startup CTO responsibilities with rigorous operational discipline from a decade of US Navy nuclear engineering and training roles, where he led teams, managed compliance, and ran high-stakes simulator operations. At Solana he contributed to the flagship solana-labs/solana documentation, improving developer onboarding and RPC/CLI docs for a widely used blockchain platform. Nicholas excels at translating complex, safety-critical processes into clear developer workflows and practical product features, making him equally comfortable with technical writing, systems design, and team leadership. His background suggests a knack for operationalizing reliability and compliance into scalable developer experiences.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering at Nuclear Power School - Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC)High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Huntingtown High School
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Github Skills (12)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
solana9
cli8
server-side-rendering6
nuxt6
seo6
javascript6
vue6
vuejs26
cloudflare-workers6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
solana-labs/solana
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Web-Scale Blockchain for fast, secure, scalable, decentralized apps and marketplaces.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:48 reviews, 16 commits, 70 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's contributions primarily involve modifications to the documentation, focusing on the structure, content, and formatting of various pages within the Solana documentation. They have restructured the developer and introduction sections, added new content, and corrected links and typos. Their work includes updating page metadata, fixing JSON RPC API redirects, and updating the CLI usage documentation generation.
securescalablesolanamarketplacesdapp
solana-foundation/mucho
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Command-line tool that simplifies the development and testing of Solana blockchain programs.
Contributions:6 reviews, 76 PRs, 93 pushes in 3 months
anchor-langblockchainsolanasolana-testingweb3
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