Gavin Nelson
Member Of Design Staff at Superellipse
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolGavin Nelson is a product and interface designer with six years of professional experience, currently a Member of Design Staff at OpenAI after roles designing GitHub Mobile and at Linear. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends visual craft—evident in a long-running app icon practice—with pragmatic product design for developer and consumer tooling. Gavin contributes to open-source tooling as a full-stack developer (notably enhancing an Obsidian linter with configurable heading capitalization and robustness fixes), showing attention to small details that improve writer workflows. A Stanford graduate in Science, Technology & Society with a Symbolic Systems minor, he brings a thoughtful, systems-level approach to UX and tooling.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Science Technology and Society; minor in Symbolic Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS) Science Technology and Society; minor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
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Github Skills (5)
linter10
regular-expression10
javascript10
obsidian10
css5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
platers/obsidian-linter
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
An Obsidian plugin that formats and styles your notes with a focus on configurability and extensibility.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 12 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the functionality of the Obsidian plugin by implementing and refining linting rules. They introduced a new rule for capitalizing headings, adding options for title case and all caps. The user also fixed a bug in the heading blank lines rule, updated options, and fixed a description, demonstrating a focus on improving the accuracy and configurability of the plugin.
extensibilityobsidianlinterobsidian-pluginobsidian-md
gavinmn/test-repo
Jun 2021 - Feb 2024
repo for testing things
Contributions:8 reviews, 15 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 8 months
testing
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