Nicolas Robin
Senior IOS Engineer - Reality Labs (Avatars)
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Robin is a Senior iOS Engineer with 10+ years building consumer and platform products across e-commerce, healthcare and social ecosystems, now shaping Avatars at Reality Labs (Meta). He combines a strong product mindset with hands-on iOS engineering, having led development of 20+ features for Instagram and Facebook Shops and managed small cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact. His background spans fast-growing startups and large-scale product rebuilds (ASOS, Babylon Health), giving him deep experience in shipping polished, high‑rating apps and experimentation-driven features. An active contributor to CocoaPods-app, he has improved developer tooling, UI interactions and error handling in a widely used open-source Cocoa ecosystem project. Comfortable bridging product, design and backend teams, Nicolas brings both technical depth from his engineering and research roots and an eye for user-focused outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Polytech GrenobleSoftware and Communications Engineering, Software and Communications Engineering at Queen's UniversityAdvanced Mathematics and Physics Mathematics and Physics, Advanced Mathematics and Physics Mathematics and Physics at CPGE Berthollet, Annecy, France
English, French
Github Skills (7)
swift10
ios10
cocoapods10
error-handling9
objective-c9
file-management8
ui-design6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods-app
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
A full-featured and standalone installation of CocoaPods.
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the CocoaPods-app. Their contributions include implementing a delegate for the CPUserProject, fixing an issue in the file editor to ensure proper updates, and merging branches. They also worked on enhancements to the UI, specifically within the `CPSidebarDocumentsController` and `CPPodfileConsoleViewController`, including the implementation of a hint button and improvements to the spotlight search functionality. Further contributions included fixing issues with table view double taps, and changes to error handling with syntax errors.
objective-ccocoapodsfull-featuredtvosinstallation
Naiko/CocoaPods-app
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
objective-ccocoapodsfull-featuredtvosinstallation
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