Nate Smith
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarNate Smith is a founder and full-stack engineer in San Francisco with 14 years focused on building real-time, collaborative web applications. He is the author of ShareDB and DerbyJS and a prolific open-source contributor whose work centers on operational transformation and realtime database backends. Nate’s contributions span backend Mongo adapters and serialization to frontend template engine fixes and DOM event handling, showing fluency across the stack. He’s known for improving maintainability and reliability—adding APIs like destroyDoc, tightening error handling, and refactoring event and query logic to stabilize collaborative workflows. Entrepreneurial and hands-on, he blends product intuition with deep technical craft to make realtime collaboration robust in both Node.js and browsers.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
operational-transformation10
javascript10
sharedb10
back-end-development10
template-engine10
mongodb-database10
dom-manipulation10
javascripts10
operational-transform10
html10
transform10
mongodb10
api-design9
nosql9
event-handling9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
share/sharedb
Apr 2013 - Jan 2020
Realtime database backend based on Operational Transformation (OT)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 476 commits, 79 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily worked on the back-end implementation of the real-time database backend. Their contributions focused on the mongo adapter, including improvements to query handling, such as ensuring the correct handling of IDs, and making it consistent. They also updated the adapter to handle the serialization of data. Additionally, they made improvements to the code by refactoring and code cleanup.
backend-databaserealtimetransformationreal-timeoperational
derbyjs/derby
Apr 2011 - Nov 2020
MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1611 commits, 33 PRs, 149 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily contributed to the DerbyJS MVC framework, focusing on enhancing the template engine, and resolving rendering issues, bug fixes, and improvements to the UI. They added features related to dynamic view instatiation, component creation. Additionally, the user addressed various issues within the UI, including the implementation of various DOM event listeners, and also worked on improvements to string handling within the template engine.
realtimebrowsersnode-jsjavascriptframework
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