PHP developer, founder, and builder of things that run businesses
I'm Nathan. I've been building web applications in PHP since 2007, when I finished my Computer Science degree at Northern Michigan University and went straight into ecommerce development. Since then the pattern has stayed the same: someone describes a business process that eats too much time, and I start sketching the software that fixes it.
What I work on
Three things take up most of my professional life right now.
Pelton Solutions is the company I founded in 2012. Its flagship product is Knowledge ERP, an inventory management system I've been building since 2016, currently mid-migration from a custom PHP framework to Laravel and Filament. The full story is in the Knowledge ERP case study.
Swiftrics is my website platform for small businesses, and the site you're reading runs on it. Fast static pages, a component-based builder, and an API that lets content be drafted and published programmatically. More in the Swiftrics case study.
At Successories I'm Director of Technology, responsible for the ecommerce platform I've been evolving since 2010, from a framework rebuild through the move from physical servers to AWS. That story is here.
There's also a patent along the way: a technique for streamlining customer photo uploads, co-invented during my years at MyPhoto. Details here.
Life, currently in motion
My wife Fabiola and I sold the idea of staying in one place and now live full-time in our fifth wheel, working from wherever we've parked it and filming the whole thing for our Nomads Amor YouTube channel. Before that I spent six years making Minecraft videos as BasketMC. Building an audience turns out to be a lot like building software: ship consistently, listen, improve.
Want to talk?
If you have a project in mind, a process that needs software, or a question about anything I've built, get in touch. My full work history is on the resume page, and the things I've built are on the projects page.