Nicholas Furness
Principal Product Manager, ArcGIS Maps SDKs For Native Apps
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Furness is a seasoned GIS system architect and product leader with 14+ years focused on Esri’s runtime SDKs and native mapping for iOS and macOS. He blends hands-on engineering—Swift, Objective-C, Node.js and .NET—with product strategy, having progressed from developer evangelist to Principal Product Manager for ArcGIS Maps SDKs. His work spans utilities, telecoms and public safety projects worldwide, including post‑9/11 NYC building recovery and West Nile Virus containment efforts, reflecting experience in high-stakes, real-world deployments. An active contributor to Esri’s arcgis-runtime-samples-ios repository, he translates complex spatial capabilities into clear, usable mobile samples and APIs. Based in Virginia and Cambridge-educated, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams and shaping roadmaps as he is refactoring sample code to keep SDKs modern and robust.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA MA Hons Computer Science, BA MA Hons Computer Science at University of Cambridge
English, Slovenian
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
maps10
swift10
ios10
arcgis10
sdk10
native-code9
arcgis-runtime-sdk9
native-ads9
natives9
xcode6
arcgisruntime6
xamarin-forms6
ipa6
android6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-runtime-samples-ios
Dec 2014 - Sep 2019
Swift samples demonstrating various capabilities of ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 56 PRs, 69 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the development of iOS samples demonstrating the ArcGIS Runtime SDK. Their work involved implementing new features, such as raster and feature layers from GeoPackages and shapefiles, as well as modifying existing samples to improve functionality and address warnings. They updated the code to support newer iOS versions and refactored code for clarity. Their contributions primarily involved the use of Swift and Objective-C within the ArcGIS ecosystem.
arcgis-runtimearcgisruntimeatsios
nixta/coreimage-tiled-layer-ios
Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 9 months
arcgis-runtimearcgisimage-effectsruntimegeneric
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