Nick Hayward
Lead Software Engineer On Apple Platforms
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Hayward is a Lead Software Engineer on Apple platforms with 11 years of experience building reliable, user-focused mobile and backend systems for companies ranging from startups to Disney. He began his career at Cisco, mastering Go and cloud-native monitoring before moving into mobile engineering and leading iOS efforts at Headspace, Compass, and other consumer-focused teams. Nick blends systems-level rigor—optimizing large services and platform migrations—with a craft-oriented attention to UX, testing, and documentation, and excels at turning vague requirements into actionable roadmaps. He’s an entrepreneurially minded engineer who co-founded and shipped multiple iOS apps, speaks internationally, and pairs technical depth with a disciplined commitment to physical and mental fitness.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Washington State UniversityKanda University of International Studies
Japanese
Github Skills (91)
benchmark10
menubar10
area-chart10
editor10
latency10
swift10
kubernetes10
electron10
homekit10
typescript10
benchmarking10
screensaver10
xcode10
go10
image-processor10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zpatrick/slackbot
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
nehayward/Magic-Mirror
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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