Filip Nikšić
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFilip Nikšić is a software engineer based in New York with 13 years of experience bridging research and production engineering, currently contributing to fuzz testing at Google. He brings deep expertise in testing, verification, and concurrent systems from a research trajectory that includes a Dr.-Ing. in computer science and postdoctoral work at UPenn. At Google he has improved robustness of a prominent open-source fuzzing project (google/fuzztest), tackling flaky tests, minimization modes, and subtle correctness issues like buffer overflows. Earlier roles span building financial systems in Java/Oracle and developing concurrency-testing frameworks at Microsoft, reflecting a pragmatic ability to move formal techniques into real-world tooling. Colleagues can expect a rigorously analytical engineer who also focuses on test automation and reliability engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering - Dr.-Ing., Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering - Dr.-Ing., Computer Science at University of KaiserslauternHigh School, High School at V. gimnazijaDipl. Ing. Mathematics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Dipl. Ing. Mathematics, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
Croatian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
fuzzing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
test-automation9
computer-engineering9
malloc6
frama-c6
dynamic-allocation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/fuzztest
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 21 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily focused on improving the test suite within the fuzztest repository. They addressed test flakiness in existing tests by refactoring and restructuring tests, such as the ProtobufTest.Arbitrary test. Additionally, the user implemented features like adding a function to list a directory and updating the minimization mode. They also fixed various warnings and issues, including those related to buffer overflows and conversion warnings, and made property functions accept a TupleOf their parameters.
fniksic/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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