Nathaniel Kirby
Senior IOS Engineer at Calm
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathaniel Kirby is a Senior iOS Engineer with 12 years of experience building elegant, user-focused mobile experiences for companies ranging from startups to large enterprises. Currently at Calm, he specializes in clean, modern iOS architectures and has a track record of improving app reliability and delivery through automated testing, CI/CD, and thoughtful code review. Past roles at Digg, bitly and Genius include leading ground-up Swift rewrites, reducing crashes by over 60%, and shipping features used by hundreds of thousands of monthly active users. He pairs product-minded UI/UX instincts with pragmatic backend and tooling work—having built bots, rapid prototype pipelines, and cross-platform solutions when needed. Based in Philadelphia, he balances craftsmanship and speed, favoring simple, joyful interfaces underpinned by robust engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Moravian College
Github Skills (30)
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minecraft9
forge9
macos9
swift9
minecraft-forge8
fabric8
utility-mod8
objective-c8
sourcekit8
java7
computercraft7
xcode7
cocoapods7
carthage6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tnkmods/Babel
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
A mod for making mods
Contributions:4 releases, 6 PRs, 30 pushes in 11 months
modmods
nkirby/Presentations
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 5 months
keynote
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