Nat Budin
Staff Software Engineer at ActBlue Technical Services
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNat Budin is a Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building and mentoring full-stack web teams, currently at ActBlue Technical Services in Bothell, WA. He combines hands-on development and devops practices to deliver reliable production systems, having advanced from Senior to Staff after leading platform work and mentoring engineers. Nat is an active open-source contributor—his fixes and tests to the widely used Prettier Ruby plugin improved formatting correctness and made the tool more robust across different environments. A Brandeis-educated computer scientist, he blends pragmatic engineering, tooling curiosity, and a knack for simplifying complex developer workflows.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Brandeis University
English
Stackoverflow
291reputation
29kreached
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Github Skills (19)
ruby10
pretier10
prettify10
jes9
jtest9
jestjs9
jest-js9
javascripts8
javascript8
activerecord6
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
openid6
core-animation6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
prettier/plugin-ruby
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Prettier Ruby Plugin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nat primarily contributed to the Prettier Ruby Plugin, enhancing its functionality and correcting formatting issues. Their work included fixing the insertion of double modifiers and preventing nested ternary expressions, along with the addition of related tests. They also addressed indentation issues within embedded code formatting and adjusted the plugin to run in different environments, including Yarn Plug'n'Play environments. Furthermore, they refactored the codebase to use temporary files for external process execution and updated the file paths to be correct.
beautifierrubyprettier-pluginformatterprettier
patientslikeme/es_dump_restore
Feb 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 4 years 10 months
file-formatindexelasticsearchcompressedcontents
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