Jared Friese
Lead Software Engineer at Flossy
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Friese is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building product-focused applications and resilient infrastructure, currently driving engineering at Flossy from Irvine, CA. He brings a hands-on, lean mindset shaped by roles at Pivotal Labs and National Instruments, combining test-driven development, process improvement, and practical automation to raise quality across teams. Jared contributes to prominent open-source Swift testing projects like Quick and Nimble—improving matchers, error handling, and coverage—and created Fleet, a UIKit-focused iOS testing framework. His background in both finance and engineering gives him a pragmatic appreciation for clear naming, effective retrospectives, and actionable feedback that improve team outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
swift10
error-handling10
test-framework10
bdd10
testing10
assert9
assertion9
asynchronous8
async8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Quick/Nimble
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
A Matcher Framework for Swift and Objective-C
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jared primarily focused on testing and expanding the functionality of the `Nimble` matcher framework, specifically related to the `satisfyAnyOf` and `satisfyOneOf` matchers. Their contributions include renaming methods, adding Swift and Objective-C support, and expanding the test suite with both positive and negative test cases, ensuring comprehensive coverage. They also added support for collections of optionals, demonstrating a focus on improving the framework's robustness.
matcherobjective-casynchronous-expectationsswift-genericscocoapods
Quick/Quick
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
The Swift (and Objective-C) testing framework.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 46 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jared's contributions center on enhancing the Quick testing framework by addressing error handling and improving the clarity of error messages. They've added tests to ensure that the `describe`, `context`, `beforeEach`, `afterEach`, and `it` functions are used correctly within the framework, specifically preventing their misuse within incorrect phases. The user's work includes adding comprehensive tests to catch and report errors, refining the framework's robustness, and streamlining the user experience for developers using the testing framework. The user also moves the test file to the correct location, addressing formatting issues and typos.
cocoapodsobjective-ctesting-frameworktestingbdd
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