Nick Richards Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area, And Seattle

Enjoying life. Supporting family.Develop tool to simplify generating image-rich, animated documentation. Develop game ideas. Mentor a family member on software and game development. Learn Python. Contribute to open source projects.Technologies: Unity, Godot, pymunk, Python, IntelliJ, Markdown, PIL.

San Francisco, Us

Develop official in-app purchase (IAP) Unity package used by thousands of games: add core features. Plan, document, build, test, integrate, release and support app store adapters cross-functionally. Own a third of supported platforms. Architect, collaboratively develop Apple StoreKit 2 support, bridge Swift to Unity C# through Objective-C.Develop features for microservices. On-call Incident management: follow best practices, perform mitigations, collaborate calmly with SRE to resolve quickly and correctly.Mentor new hires. Support end-users on forum and direct. Took initiative, improved quality after team losses: create feature tracking plan, manual tests, development processes, refactor for testability, regularly meet with Customer Support, set expectations.Technology: C# (Moq, NUnit), C/C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, Golang, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Android, Windows, Tizen, Amazon Fire, Samsung Galaxy, Unity (Plug-ins, UI - UXML/USS), Gradle, GCP, Grafana, Kafka, Kubernetes, Git, Mercurial, shell, Xcode, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Apple App Store and Google Play Billing API, Scrum, Clean code

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Develop, use iOS emulation platform for Android. Improve automatic porting: add features, fixes to in-house variants of iOS frameworks.Improve five customer apps: optimize networking speed by 50%, stabilize general networking, local multiplayer connection, optimize game smoothness to 60 FPS, entirely port two games to AndroidTechnology: Objective-C, C, Python, Java, iOS, Android, Apple Foundation, UIKit, Bluetooth, Cocos2d, XCTest, Git, gdb, clang, Xcode, shell

Hire, manage a team of eight engineers, coordinate production, document processes, develop several mini-game “chapters”. Publish “Leo's Pad” and related apps - a total of 12 titles.Collaborate with art, design, voice talent, learning specialists, local and remote engineers, QATechnology: iOS, Cocos2d-x, Lua, Xcode, Git, TestFlight

Develop, publish “Picapic Camera” app. Add IAP, push, media creation with Canvas, client-server API. Collaborate with art, server teams. Technology: JavaScript, iOS, Android, Cordova, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, TDD, Cloud Messaging, Redis, Postgres, Scrum

Develop, publish mobile apps, games, server features for clients, on-site, off-site. Add IAP, gameplay, inventory, security, social, performance, reliability.Technology: Java, Objective-C, iOS, Android, Graph API, IAP, CoreData, UIKit, WebKit, Cocos2D, Spring Security, Cordova, Hibernate, ElectroServer, Xcode, Ruby Cucumber, BDD, Jenkins CI

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Collaboratively develop, publish mobile features. Lead small team for app, rebranded white-labeled framework. Add live streaming and static media creation, consumption, localization, multi-metrics systems, GUI, optimized live video.Desktop app: GUI, media capture, layout. Java server: remote-synchronized versioned data object.Technology: C++, Java, ActionScript, Android, iOS, BlackBerry, MIDP, Nokia Symbian, Spring, Adobe Flash, Flex, CDN, HTTP, TCP, UDP, h264, HLS, shell, Eclipse, Ant, Perforce, IntelliJ

Develop, publish in-house and for-contract apps, games, cross-platform game framework: client-server integration, smart automatic coding tool increased app-port productivity by weeksTechnology: C++, Java, J2ME MIDP, BREW, Perforce, SVN, ANTLR

Annapolis, Md, Us

Develop, publish “Kivera Maps” app, features, documentation for “Mobility Framework”. Add cache for PNG map tiles, novel tiled map scrolling. Research, develop “Find-A-Phone” remote family locator. Technology: C++, BREW mobile handsets, A-GPS, Struts, CVS

San Francisco, California, Us

Collaboratively develop mobile web browser “Neomar Microbrowser”, parser, document “push” client. Own web cache, cookies, JavaScript, innovative data compression client layer, WindowsCE port.Design, develop Desktop Installer, white-labeling brand featuresTechnology: C++, Tcl/Tk, RIM OS, PalmOS, WindowsCE, RFC 3229, WBXML, Visual Studio, InstallShield

Bethesda, Md, Us

Reverse engineer, redevelop legacy apps, improve team efficiency: “Iridium” commercial communication satellite, separate classified area.Technology: C/C++, Fortran, AIX, UNIX, MVS, X, Motif

Bachelors, Computer And Information Science

Oregon Transfer, General Studies