Tyrone Nicholas
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarTyrone Nicholas is an AI Resident and seasoned software engineer based in Stony Stratford, UK, with a decade of experience leading full-stack teams at startups and major tech firms. He pairs an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Stanford with hands-on work across mobile (Android), large-scale web, and serverless architectures—migrating billing systems, moving codebases from CommonJS to ESM, and building nightly sample-data pipelines that personalise experiences in real time. Tyrone has led engineering under high-pressure conditions (including politically sensitive campaigns) and at scale at Google and Facebook, and contributes to open-source projects such as Facebook’s Fresco where he improved UI, build tooling, and enabled ProGuard in sample apps. Now guiding AI work at The Machine Learning Institute while architecting fintech lending platforms at SAPI, he excels at turning research and legacy systems into performant, production-ready services.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
2,558reputation
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35answers
2questions
android
top-5%
Github Skills (15)
gradle10
user-interface10
gradlew10
userinterface10
android9
proguard8
documentation7
documentations7
memory-management6
facebook6
picasso6
bitmap6
android-glide6
fresco6
image6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/fresco
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
An Android library for managing images and the memory they use.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 348 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tyrone primarily worked on UI-related improvements. They fixed a Gradle build issue, updated documentation for new network classes, and implemented a new test runner script. Additionally, they turned on ProGuard in sample apps and made various code changes to adjust the layout of some features. These updates show the user's focus on improving build processes and user interface.
memoryimageandroid-libraryandroid
tyronen/tos
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 tag in 2 years 3 months
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