Rich Ellis
Lead IOS Engineer at Nike
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Ellis is a Lead iOS Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with a decade of experience building mobile products and leading engineering teams at Nike. He progressed from contractor and senior engineer roles into leadership, shipping consumer-facing apps and mentoring engineers while maintaining a pragmatic, QA-minded approach rooted in his earlier analytics and data-engineering career. Prior to iOS, he drove measurable impact at Medtronic—automating reporting, improving yield, and delivering dashboards that saved hundreds of engineer-hours—skills he brings to product decisions and instrumentation on mobile teams. Comfortable across Swift, Objective-C, analytics, and CI practices, he blends hands-on implementation with roadmap and stakeholder management. Colleagues would note his pattern of turning messy data and requirements into repeatable systems and shipping tangible user value.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSECE, Electrical Engineering, BSECE, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (58)
static-analysis10
linter10
linting10
logging10
swift10
ccmenu9
xcode8
gocd8
cruisecontrol8
networking8
swift-package-manager8
programming-language8
carthage7
jenkins7
thoughtworks6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richellis/swift-package-manager
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
The Package Manager for the Swift Programming Language
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
swift-programming-languagepackage-managerswift-programmingswiftmacos
Nike-Inc/Willow
Sep 2016 - Jul 2023
Willow is a powerful, yet lightweight logging library written in Swift.
Contributions:7 reviews, 7 comments in 6 years 10 months
loggingswift
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