Brian Nicholson

• Implemented core browser features for Firefox Android and iOS, including private browsing, search suggestions, readability, session restore, and find-in-page. Built Firefox for iOS from the ground up as one of three of the project’s founding engineers.
• Selected as the sole engineer for the initial release of the Firefox Focus browser on iOS, which went from conception to v1.0 in just six weeks. Participated in daily stand-ups with UX, QA, marketing, program/project management, and upper management.
• Represented mobile team in weekly security team meetings, and was first point of contact for mobile security bugs.
• Rewrote performance-critical parts of the readability module for Firefox for Android. Rewritten code is now used in all major Firefox browsers and other popular external projects.
• Extensively collaborated with open-source contributors on Bugzilla and GitHub, reviewing thousands of public patches and pull requests.

• Built LibX 2.0, a cross-browser extension used by over 500 institutions with tens of thousands of end users.

Programming Languages

• Swift
• JavaScript
• Kotlin
• Java
• Python
• HTML
• CSS
• MySQL

Technologies

• iOS SDK
• Android SDK
• React Native
• Node.js
• Firebase

• Mobile puzzle game written in Kotlin, powered by libGDX.

• Mobile speech-based social word game written in Swift, powered by Firebase and PocketSphinx.

• Master’s thesis: LibX 2.0