Rob Napier
Independent Consultant at Audible
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRob Napier is an independent consultant and seasoned Mac/iOS developer with 14+ years building secure, high-performance apps and cross-platform tooling using Swift, Objective-C, C++, Rust, and Go. He combines deep systems and security expertise—risk assessment, anti-counterfeiting, and PKI—with hands-on experience in voice/video, Bluetooth, networking, and UI on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Rob has driven product and platform work at companies like Cisco, Jaybird and Audible and maintains notable open-source contributions, including cryptographic work (PBKDF2) in the Zig language and the widely used RNCryptor project. He frequently works globally, particularly across Asia and Europe with an emphasis on China, and pairs technical delivery with policy development and persuasive technical writing. Comfortable from low-level protocol and performance tuning to cross-OS interoperability, he also brings experience building backend services in Python/Django and Rust. A practical problem-solver, he blends engineering rigor with security-first thinking to ship robust, auditable systems.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (134)
uiviewcontroller10
multithreading10
testing10
cocoa10
uiview10
security10
bluetooth10
pbkdf210
uikit10
cocoa-touch10
encryption10
swiftui10
memory-leaks10
memory-management10
swift10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
iosptl/ios7ptl
Sep 2013 - Jan 2019
Sample Code from iOS 7 Programming Pushing the Limits
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rob primarily worked on an iOS application, contributing code across multiple files related to UI, app lifecycle management, and dynamic behaviors. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a DraggableView, UIViewController, and modifications to the AppDelegate, indicating a focus on core application structure and user interaction design. Further, there were improvements to the display and layout of text.
ios
ziglang/zig
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Moved to Codeberg
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of the PBKDF2 key derivation function within the Zig programming language's standard library. Their work involved adding the initial implementation, incorporating code reviews, correcting offsets, and adding tests. They focused on ensuring the correct functionality and performance of the PBKDF2 implementation, including a test case for very large key lengths. The user's contributions align with developing core cryptographic functionalities within the project.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
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