Nick Forge
Senior Staff Engineer (Mobile) at SEEK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Forge is a Senior Staff Mobile Engineer based in Melbourne with 15+ years building resilient, user-first mobile experiences across startups and scale-ups, including leading iOS work at Cash App/Block and now SEEK. He blends hands-on iOS/SDK development, platform and chief architect experience, and embedded firmware roots to solve hard problems where networks, devices and UX collide—such as media playback in Wi‑Fi blackspots and sports data delivery over lossy networks. Nick has led cross-functional teams to deliver novel location- and audio-driven experiences (including museum-grade systems and virtual queuing), created reusable audio and client SDKs, and driven platform APIs using protobuf/gRPC. A pragmatic engineer who prefers small collaborative teams, he also contributes to open-source test tooling and has a background in firmware DSP and PCB design that informs his systems-level approach.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
asynchronous10
objective-c10
ios10
testing10
xctest10
singleton10
protocols10
iphone10
queue10
unit-testing9
cocoa9
nsdate9
floating-point9
uitableview9
xcode9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
specta/expecta
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A Matcher Framework for Objective-C/Cocoa
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the quality and robustness of the `expecta` framework by addressing several warnings and potential issues. They fixed compiler warnings related to no-arg blocks, designated initializers, and undeclared selectors. Additionally, the user resolved null argument warnings and handled a merge conflict. The user's changes involved modifications to existing test files, demonstrating a focus on test coverage and code reliability.
objective-c
nsforge/Bedrock
Jun 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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