Nick Dowell
Owner at Audionixx
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Dowell is an experienced systems-focused software engineer and founder with 21 years building native applications and platform tooling, particularly on Apple platforms using C++, Objective-C and Swift. He has led and scaled iOS teams as Platform Tech Lead at Yell and shipped core runtime features as Senior Apple Platforms Engineer at Bugsnag, where he contributed notable iOS support to the widely used bugsnag-js React Native SDK (including native stack recording and app hang detection). Now running his own consultancy Audionixx from Reading, he combines hands-on development with architecture and delivery leadership across mobile, telephony (SIP VoIP) and desktop audio drivers. Nick’s background includes low-level driver work and cross-platform media software at Focusrite and product security/engineering at Sophos, giving him a rare blend of embedded, systems and high-level app expertise. He’s pragmatic about shipping reliable production systems and quietly favors solving tricky platform integration problems that most teams avoid.
21 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (12)
mobile10
objective-c10
error-handling10
ios10
react-native10
bugsnag10
cocoa10
macos6
openssl6
android6
iphone6
facebook6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bugsnag/bugsnag-js
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
JavaScript error handling tool for BugSnag. Monitor and report JavaScript bugs & errors.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:30 reviews, 104 commits, 112 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the iOS-specific portions of the Bugsnag JavaScript SDK for React Native. Their work focused on enhancing error reporting by recording the native stack in an error and by providing a Cocoa-based implementation. They updated the bugsnag-cocoa dependency, and implemented features for iOS, including app hang detection. They also made adjustments to how data is persisted and cleared, along with improvements in how the system state is tracked.
monitorexception-handlingerror-monitoringbugsnag-jsexceptions
amsynth/amsynth
Jan 2005 - Jan 2023
Contributions:33 releases, 5 reviews, 1331 commits in 18 years 3 months
synthesizersynthesisc-plus-plussynthclap
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