Nicholas Clooney

Led 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.
• Drove technical strategy for unified CI/CD pipeline across apps, enabling the team to fully transition with zero friction, by boosting developer productivity and confidence.
• Spearheaded knowledge sharing on CI/CD and git best practices through dedicated sessions, significantly improving team-wide adoption of new pipeline features.
• Integrated Kayo into the unified monorepo, navigating undocumented configurations and aligning build tooling to enable consistent, multi-app development workflows.

Set a new technical direction for Slyp's Apple Platform SDK by introducing a modern, test-driven architecture, tripled delivery speed & established new standards for code quality.

• Defined the technical strategy for the SDK by leading the adoption of a modern architecture with SwiftUI, Combine, and TCA, which tripled feature delivery speed while maintaining 85% test coverage.
• Created a clear path for technical decision-making by leading cross-functional alignment workshops, clarified requirements and reduced sign-off cycle times by 70%.
• Instituted mandatory CI checks, increasing PR merge speed by 80% and cutting hot-fix rate by 60%.

Owned the end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for Kasada’s Apple Platform SDK, creating a resilient, modular architecture to protect billions of monthly requests.

• Set the long-term technical direction for the SDK by designing a flexible, multi-instance architecture that minimized integration overhead and supported future scalability, serving as the sole architect from inception to production.
• Established the foundation for SDK quality and adoption by architecting a completely testable system (95% coverage) and authoring comprehensive documentation, which eliminated support overhead and accelerated enterprise integration.
• Laid the groundwork for development best practices by establishing a fully automated, platform-agnostic CI/CD pipeline that enforced SDK test coverage and documentation standards, ensuring consistent quality and reducing 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 strategy by authoring ADRs and leading cross-team reviews, mentoring engineers through presentations and hands-on sessions.
• Led and coached a team of junior and mid-level engineers in Swift, SDK design, and secure coding practices, conducting regular 1-on-1s and code reviews to foster technical growth and team autonomy.

Drove major product and platform initiatives for Australia’s top property search app, focusing on reusable, scalable, high business impact components, and owning CI/CD.

• Architected an in-app ads delivery engine generated millions in annual revenue.
• Led design of domain model layer for Search Results, achieving 100% crash-free rate.
• Introduced Behavior-Driven Development, reducing requirement churn by 30%.
• Owned CI/CD pipelines slashing build times by 45% and accelerating release cadence.