Nick PorterNick Porter · Salt Lake City, UT

iOS engineer
working on payments
at Stripe.

I work on Stripe's iOS SDK, the payment components other developers integrate into their apps. Before that I built mobile SDKs at Adobe and interned on the Tumblr iOS team. I've been shipping apps to the App Store since 2014.

  • currently Stripe · iOS SDK
  • previously Adobe, Tumblr
  • shipping since 2014
Work history
01

Work

2014 to present
  1. 2021 - Now Salt Lake City, UT

    Stripe

    Senior iOS Engineer

    I work on the iOS SDK: the payment sheet and related components that developers embed in their apps. Mostly API design, performance, and reliability work.

  2. 2018 - 2021 Lehi, UT

    Adobe

    Software Engineer

    Mobile SDKs for the Adobe Experience Platform.

    • Led the rewrite of the SDKs from C++/Objective-C to Swift, open sourced on GitHub.
    • Built the official React Native and Flutter wrappers.
    • Maintained the Analytics and Audience libraries on iOS and Android.
  3. Summer 2017 New York City, NY

    Tumblr

    iOS Engineering Intern

    Worked on the Tumblr iOS app in Swift and Objective-C. Improved GIF loading times in the image stack and shipped two features I proposed.

02

Education

  1. 2014 - 2018 Salt Lake City, UT

    University of Utah

    B.S. Computer Science
    • Certificate in Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.
    • Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute.
03

Apps

Personal projects, designed and built solo
Shipments app icon

Shipments

A package tracker supporting 440+ carriers, with push notifications, label scanning, and localization in ten languages.

  • Swift
  • iOS
  • 440+ carriers
 PlateMate app icon

PlateMate

A restaurant calorie and macro tracker. Scores menu items against your goals so you know what to order.

  • Swift
  • AI
  • Nutrition
 Colorizer app icon

Colorizer

Colorizes black-and-white photos with machine learning. Built with old family photographs in mind.

  • Swift
  • Core ML
  • Photos

Earlier apps, including camera tools and a campus shuttle tracker, are on my App Store developer page.

04

About

Nick Porter

I'm an iOS engineer in Salt Lake City. I've spent most of my career building SDKs.

Currently that's payments at Stripe. Before that I worked on mobile SDKs at Adobe and spent a summer on the Tumblr iOS team. I studied computer science at the University of Utah.

Outside of work, it's mostly mountain biking and Utah football.