About
Software engineer based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Passionate about all things tech, solving interesting problems, learning how things work, and [simultaneously] breaking and building things in order to create something to be proud of.
Currently working at Industrial Resolution as a Senior Software / Elastic Certified Engineer.
I enjoy working on lots of little passion projects which you can find on my GitHub and getting involved within my local tech scene.
Interests
- Full-Stack Development
- Reverse Engineering
- Homelabbing
- API Development
- Elasticsearch
- Home Automation
Latest Blog Posts
Incoherent ramblings, project updates, reviews, and other writings fallen into the ether.
Elasticon 2024
This is a bit of a retroactive post that’s been sitting in my drafts, but two months ago I had the pleasure of attending ElasticON 2024 in New York City thanks to our company being a partner and sponsor for the event. It was a great experience and I learned a lot about current and upcoming features within the Elastic stack. I also had the opportunity to meet some of the Elastic team as well as some of my clients.
RRTA ModeShift Reverse-Engineering
A few years ago, the RRTA (Red Rose Transit Authority) performed a big overhaul to their transit system, including the introduction of a new mobile app called RRTA Go Mobile by ModeShift. The app was designed to replace the old paper tickets and passes with a digital system that could be used to purchase passes and plan trips. As a big proponent of public transit, this was a very welcomed improvement for me. There were a few issues early on with QR codes not scanning properly and/or failing to renew, but those issues were quickly resolved. I myself have submitted a ticket or two to the developers regarding some issues I’ve encountered and received a fairly timely response with fixes following shortly after, so props to the developers for that.
LCWC and Dispatch Rabbit Holes
Earlier this year, I became interested in the LCWC (Lancaster County-Wide Communications) incident page - a county-wide dispatch system that provides incident updates for all of Lancaster County, PA.
Public Projects
Here are a few public projects I’ve worked on. I still have a lot yet to add here and some of these might not be 100% up to date, but I'll get to it eventually™.
If you would like to see my portfolio and resume for professional work, message me.
Tabster
Tabster is a guitar tab manager that stores tabs in a library for easy viewing, editing, and printing. It includes a built-in online tab search that provides access to over 800,000 tabs from Ultimate Guitar and easily download them and add them to your library.
Build and Shoot
Build and Shoot is a project operated by Buld Then Snip, LLC, a company co-founded and co-operated by myself that focuses on supporting and developing the classic version of the game "Ace of Spades". After being bought out by another studio and moving to a pay-to-play model, we decided to branch off and continue support for the free-to-play version.
Spadille
Spadille is a multi-purpose program for Ace of Spades. It features a server browser that allows favoriting, blacklisting, filtering, sorting and more as well as a mod manager, screenshot manager, config editor, and more.
Open Source Projects
GitHub: https://github.com/NateShoffnerContact Me
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