Nathan Flurry
Cofounder at Rivet
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarNathan Flurry is a San Francisco–based cofounder and full-stack software engineer with 10 years' experience focused on real-time communication, backend systems, programming languages, and UX. At Rivet he helps build open-source multiplayer game dev tooling and runs matchmaking, game servers, and DDoS mitigation (YC W23), while earlier he independently engineered infrastructure serving over 15 million MAU and 20k CCU as a high‑schooler. He built anti-cheat systems for Krunker using Rust and WebAssembly, shipped mobile clients, and has hands-on experience across Rust, Node.js, Swift, Go, and WebAssembly. An active open-source contributor, he added localization and Leaf templating integration to the popular Vapor server-side Swift framework, reflecting a rare mix of low-latency systems work and product-minded UX sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
web-framework10
swift10
localization10
vapor10
web-frameworks10
testing8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vapor/vapor
May 2016 - Jul 2017
💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nathan primarily contributed to the Vapor framework's core functionality by implementing and refining the localization features, incorporating Leaf templating engine integration. They added the `LeafLocalizeTag` for dynamic translation within Leaf templates. Further contributions include bug fixes and improvements to the configuration and testing of the framework.
http2frameworkswift-nioswiftserver-side
rivet-gg/frontend
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:246 reviews, 97 PRs, 272 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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