Nick Romano
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Romano is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable mobile and platform software, currently at Snap after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft where he progressed to Principal Software Engineer. He has deep iOS expertise—demonstrated by contributions to Microsoft’s widely used Fluent System Icons project, where he improved the iOS asset pipeline, metadata handling, and RTL/LTR icon support. Comfortable across mobile and backend toolchains, he’s shipped production fixes spanning Swift code, build configurations, and CocoaPods validation. Based in San Francisco, he pairs systems-minded engineering with practical product-awareness from roles at startups and acquired teams early in his career. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, especially when improving maintainability and automation in asset-heavy codebases. His background in networking security and forensics gives him a practical edge for building robust, well-instrumented systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Networking Security and Forensics w/ Minor in Computer Science, B.S. Computer Networking Security and Forensics w/ Minor in Computer Science at Roger Williams UniversityUniversity of Wollongong
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Github Skills (16)
swift10
ios10
objective-c8
obj8
flask-admin6
flask-sqlalchemy6
html6
tastypie6
javascript6
jquery6
python6
django6
flask6
reactn3
react-r3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui-system-icons
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:34 reviews, 27 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the Fluent UI system icons. They focused on enhancing the iOS importer, including features such as handling LTR/RTL icon variations and supporting new metadata formats. Furthermore, the user addressed issues within the iOS codebase, like fixing asset removal scripts and addressing CocoaPods validation concerns, demonstrating a focus on improving the quality and maintainability of the iOS icon library. Their work involved modifying Swift code, updating build configurations, and adapting the asset processing pipeline for improved functionality.
reactandroiddesigniosfluent
nickromano/django-daily-digest
Jan 2018 - Jul 2022
Simple daily summary email with charts.
Contributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 91 PRs in 4 years 7 months
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