Nick Confrey Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

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iOS Engineer on the New Product Experiences team, building Swift apps with rapid product iterationCurrently building Collab, an app to make collaborative music videos.

Tech lead on Whale, a meme creation app written in Swift- Focused on improving retention and achieving product/market fit through rapid feature development and data analysis- Implemented a performant, smooth scrolling image and video feed backed by GraphQL and Apollo- Built novel image and GIF creative tools using Core Graphics, Metal, and Apple's Vision framework

iOS Engineer on Facebook stories, writing objc to scale creative tools to millions of DAP- Expert on memory management, using Instruments and profiling to ensure smooth performance- Built a music picker to allow users to add music to their stories- Ideated and created a music capture mode for the Facebook camera, leveraging beat detection- Implemented an animated music lyrics sticker

I proposed, developed, and implemented an audio and videostreaming library for the nonprofit and open source code base Processing.org. All code and details can be found at https://github.com/nconfrey/GSoC. I used C, Java, Make, and developed on Linux, compiling using gcc and Eclipse.This project was broken up into roughly three useful parts. It originally focused on streaming media over the network, primarily video and audio streams, but evolved to include revamping Processing's video core video framework. I planned to write networking code in Java, but the project evolved to consist of learning and developing C to Java conversion through Java Native Interface and Java Native Access. Along the way I also picked up skills in video codecs, network packet payloading, and audio encoding.Highlights:- Used Java Native Interface to access the GStreamer C video library in Processing's native Java.- Updated the core video framework of Processing to use GStreamer 1.0 instead of depreciated .10. This allows users of Processing to use modern hardware.

Fetchnotes was a small productivity startup that created a note-taking web and phone app. On a team of roughly 8 members, I collaborated on many different aspects in a burgeoning startup.As part of a product pivot, I took charge on identifying key market segments by conducting customer discovery interviews. In order to find the right product market fit, I talked with people ranging from event planners to contractors to other small business owners. After finding some ideal use cases, I conducted inbound marketing and SEO by developing targeted website landing pages and used Facebook advertising. Ultimately, the new product our team created was deemed valuable enough to be acquired.As part of being a leader in the productivity field, I helped Fetchnotes put together a panel on the Future of Collaboration. We interviewed CEOs of companies such Yammer, Wunderlist, and Asana (bit.ly/137Eajv).

New York, Ny, Us