Nik Clayton
Otelfingen, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNik Clayton is a privacy-focused software engineer with 19 years of experience and currently working on Engineering for Privacy at Google from Zurich. He brings hands-on mobile development expertise—contributing notable UX improvements and bug fixes to the popular Tusky Mastodon Android client, including gesture-driven video dismissal and hashtag mute/filter features. His background spans long-term practical engineering rather than traditional academic degrees, with early studies at Henley College and Brunel University London. Comfortable operating at the intersection of privacy, mobile UX, and production reliability, he combines product-minded thinking with low-level attention to user-facing details. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes user control and privacy while steadily improving large, community-driven codebases.
19 years of coding experience
Brunel University LondonHenley College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
android-sdk10
android10
ui-design9
android-viewpager9
mastodon8
social-networking7
social-graph7
java6
stream6
elisp6
sqlite6
emacs6
org-mode6
showcaseview6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
tuskyapp/Tusky
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 releases, 324 reviews, 31 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nik primarily contributed to the Tusky Android client, focusing on UI/UX improvements and bug fixes. Their work included disabling tab swiping based on user preferences, implementing swipe-down-to-dismiss functionality for videos, adding a menu option to mute/filter hashtags, and cleaning up the NotificationsFragment to facilitate Kotlin conversion. The user also addressed issues related to text pasting and status editing.
social-networkfdroidpixelfedfediversesocial
pachli/pachli-android
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
The Pachli Android app
Contributions:27 releases, 61 reviews, 1565 PRs in 1 year 7 months
androidandroid-appandroid-applicationkotlinkotlin-android
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