Nicki Stone
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Laguna Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicki Stone is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building mobile and web systems, currently focused on developer-facing work at Amazon. She has driven platform-level initiatives—like a unified data layer at Instagram and the AWS SDK/Amplify for Swift—bridging product needs with scalable engineering and developer tooling. A polyglot engineer comfortable across Swift, .NET, JavaScript and AWS, she’s shipped iOS features integrating ML and cloud services (notably contributions to aws-amplify and the AWS iOS SDK). Nicki pairs hands-on implementation (from chat interfaces and Transcribe Streaming to offline ML sync) with leadership in modularization and Swift adoption, and brings entrepreneurial grit from founding a startup that raised seed funding. Based in Laguna Beach, she’s also fluent in Spanish and brings a linguistics-informed perspective to user-centric design and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Art Instruction SchoolSabio.laUniversity of California, Los AngelesDiploma, Diploma at Corona Del Mar High School
English, Spanish, Hebrew
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Github Skills (26)
aws-sdk-ios10
objective-c10
facebook-sdk10
ios10
mobile-development10
aws-sdk10
aws10
aws-amplify10
swift10
unit-testing9
websocket9
websockets-client9
client-websocket9
polly9
websocket-client9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-sdk-ios-samples
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
This repository has samples that demonstrate various aspects of the AWS SDK for iOS, you can get the SDK source on Github https://github.com/aws-amplify/aws-sdk-ios/
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicki primarily contributed to the iOS sample applications within the repository. Their commits focused on modifying and updating code related to a chat interface using the AWS Lex service. These changes included updates to the `ChatViewController` and `Constants` files, as well as the addition of base64 decoding for handling special characters in responses, and the addition of a String Extension. The user also made changes related to the `IoT-Sample` application, re-basing with master branch.
aws-amplifyaws-sdkaws-sdk-iosiosaws
aws-amplify/amplify-swift
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
A declarative library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 19 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicki contributed significantly to the `aws-amplify/amplify-swift` repository, focusing on the Predictions category. They implemented various features within the Predictions framework, including label detection, celebrity detection, entity recognition, and text analysis. Their work involved modifying existing service implementations and operations, demonstrating a strong understanding of the Amplify framework and its integration with AWS services. The user also addressed code review comments and integrated the Polly feature.
cloud-servicesiosswiftawsaws-amplify
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