export default ` Nathan Friend
Email

Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab and cellist based out of Woodstock, Ontario. Fascinated with building usable, delightful software. Remote work advocate.

GitLab
GitHub
LinkedIn
Stack Overflow
Twitter

GitLab 2018-12-10 —

Senior Frontend Engineer

I build features that help people release software more quickly, easily, and effectively.

Highlights

  • Implemented high-profile features such as Let's Encrypt integration, merge trains, deploy freezes, DORA 4 metrics, and markdown editor keyboard shortcuts
  • Pushed Release vision forward through in-depth technical and business analysis
  • Reviewed and guided community contributions
  • Maintainer of gitlab-org/gitlab
  • Performed technical and behavioral interviews
  • Worked 100% remotely

DeltaWare 2016-08-03 — 2018-12-05

Project Architect

I led efforts to rebuild legacy healthcare software as modern web applications with an emphasis on maintainability and usability.

Highlights

  • Led AngularJS to Angular 2+ conversion
  • Implemented fast, intuitive searching using Solr
  • Pushed for CI, code reviews, UX/UI mockups, open source participation, and documentation
  • Contributed to hiring, mentoring, and product vision

DuPont Pioneer 2013-05-20 — 2016-07-20

Software Development Specialist

I designed a modular frontend system that allowed multiple teams to independently build a web application used by farmers to optimize fertilizer usage.

Highlights

  • Built mapping features using Leaflet and Bing Maps
  • Rebuilt Gulp builds to maximize developer efficiency
  • Implemented an automated TypeScript unit testing framework using PhantomJS, Karma, and Jasmine
  • Enforced coding standards using NDepend and TSLint

Visual Logic Group 2013-01-15 — 2013-05-01

UX Development Intern

Dordt University 2012-01-20 — 2013-05-10

Web Developer

DuPont Pioneer 2012-05-20 — 2012-08-05

Software Development Intern

SnupNow 2011-04-15 — 2011-08-05

Web Development Intern

Iowa State University 2015-08-01 — 2019-08-15

Human-Computer Interaction
Master

Dordt University 2009-08-01 — 2013-05-10

Computer Science
Bachelor

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Dart
  • C♯
  • Ruby
  • SCSS
  • SQL

Frameworks

  • Vue.js
  • Angular
  • React
  • Flutter
  • Rails
  • ASP.NET
  • WPF

Concepts

  • Continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD)
  • Automated testing
  • REST/GraphQL API design
  • Cross-browser debugging
  • Responsive design
  • Developer workflow optimization
  • Single Page Applications (SPAs)
  • Internationalization (i18n)
`;