Aura Vulcano
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAura Vulcano is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience, including 13 years building UI/UX and framework-level features at Apple across Maps, Cocoa, and visionOS. Now based in San Francisco, she is reskilling into game and narrative design while running SIGIL GREENHOUSE to create accessible, replayable tabletop games. A pragmatic engineer and founder, she has shipped low-cost multiplatform projects through ∞labs and contributed to high-profile open-source work on Swift Foundation—restoring complex NSArray enumeration behavior and adding robust tests. Her background blends deep systems and UI framework expertise with a growing focus on game systems and storytelling, making her comfortable moving between low-level concurrency issues and player-facing design.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica, Ingegneria Informatica, Laurea Specialistica, Ingegneria Informatica at Politecnico di Milano
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Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
ios10
swift10
nsarray10
iphone9
uitableview9
cocoa-touch9
objective-c8
algorithm7
algorithms7
data-structure7
data-structures7
motion-detection6
macos6
logging6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2017 - Jun 2022
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 687 commits, 519 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Aura's contributions primarily involved restoring and updating the functionality of the block-based enumerateObjects methods in NSArray. Their work included modifications in NSIndexSet to support concurrent enumeration options and address potential issues with out-of-order results. Additionally, the user implemented and tested various coding scenarios to ensure proper functionalities. This effort involved the creation of a test suite and adding tests for handling invalid data.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
millenomi/diceshaker
Feb 2009 - May 2009
Contributions:50 commits in 2 months
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