Nicholas Clooney

Led iOS and tvOS development for Binge, Kayo, and Flash (streaming video services), driving modernization by overhauling the core tvOS experience and unifying the CI/CD pipeline across Streamotion's Apple platform.

• Redesigned the core tvOS experience with the native Focus Engine and modern UICollectionView, significantly improving navigation fluidity and user satisfaction.
• Built and unified the CI/CD pipeline across three apps, boosting developer productivity and confidence by enabling the mobile team to fully transition from legacy standalone repos to a unified monorepo environment.
• Integrated Kayo into the unified monorepo, navigating undocumented configurations and aligning build tooling to enable consistent, multi-app development workflows.

Drove the design and delivery of Slyp's iOS SDK, tripling feature delivery speed and cutting the hot-fix rate by 60% by championing modern architecture and mandatory CI checks.

• Championed SwiftUI, Combine, and Swift Composable Architecture, tripling feature delivery speed while sustaining 85% automated test coverage.
• Led cross-functional alignment workshops, reducing sign-off cycle time by 70% on major banking integrations.
• Instituted mandatory tests, linters, and CI checks, increasing PR merge speed by 80% and cutting the hot-fix rate by 60%.

Designed and maintained Kasada’s Apple Platform SDK, delivering resilient mobile defenses that protect billions of requests monthly.

• Sole architect and maintainer of the SDK from inception to production, delivering a modular (enabling rapid pivots), thread-safe system with defensive design that allowed flexible multi-instance usage and near-zero integration issues.
• Engineered a highly testable SDK with 95% test coverage and authored comprehensive documentation, leading to zero customer support overhead and rapid enterprise adoption.
• Established a fully automated, platform-agnostic CI/CD pipeline that enforced SDK test coverage and documentation updates through automated PR reviews, ensuring consistent, reproducible builds and cutting developer iteration time.
• Participated in on-call rotation, managing incidents impacting global customers and leading post-mortem analyses for sustained reliability improvements.
• Drove architectural alignment and mobile security strategy by authoring ADRs and leading cross-team reviews, mentoring engineers through presentations and hands-on sessions.

Delivered feature development and UX improvements for Australia’s top property search app, focusing on reusable, scalable components.

• Architected an in-app ads delivery engine that generated millions in annual revenue through targeted, reusable components.
• Implemented a Domain Model layer for the Search Results screen, achieving a 100% crash-free rate on a flagship feature.
• Introduced Behavior-Driven Development (Given/When/Then) for acceptance criteria, reducing requirement churn by 30%.
• Owned the CI/CD migration from CircleCI 1.0 to 2.0, slashing build times by 45% and accelerating release cadence.