Nate West
IOS Engineer at Whatnot
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNate West is a seasoned iOS engineer with 14 years of experience building mobile products from startup to scale, currently shipping features at Whatnot after senior roles at Supergreat and Detroit Labs. He combines deep Swift expertise with full‑stack sensibilities, having contributed to prominent open-source projects like OctoKit.swift and the CocoaPods ecosystem where he improved CLI tooling, testing, and UI features. Nate’s work spans unit testing, API client development, refactoring for maintainability, and pragmatic UX enhancements such as Podfile autocomplete. Based in Detroit, he brings a history of mentoring and technical leadership across product-focused teams and agency environments. Notably, his open-source contributions show a habit of improving developer experience and bridging Ruby and Swift tooling—skills that help teams move faster and reduce technical debt.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Michigan State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
dependency-manager10
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
command-line-interface10
autocomplete10
user-interface10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
sql10
command-line10
swift10
macos10
package-manager10
cocoapods10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods-app
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
A full-featured and standalone installation of CocoaPods.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 34 PRs, 49 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nate made contributions to enhance the CocoaPods-app project, focusing on both front-end and back-end improvements. They implemented features such as autocomplete functionality in the Podfile editor and adjusted various annotations within the codebase. Moreover, the user bridged functionality from Ruby, refactored code for better usability, and improved the display of warnings in the UI. Their work also encompassed code cleanup and refactoring to improve the overall quality of the codebase.
cocoapods
nerdishbynature/octokit.swift
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
A Swift API Client for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nate primarily focused on developing and testing features for the OctoKit Swift library, which is a client for the GitHub API. Their contributions included adding functionality related to user followers, starred repositories, and general user information, as well as refactoring and improving the code. The user was involved in writing unit tests and ensuring the correct functionality of the API calls.
swiftoauth-flowoctokitapi-client
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