Summary
Nelson Gomez is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years focused on systems programming, performance engineering, and distributed systems. At Microsoft he built a latency analysis pipeline for Office Collaboration Service and helped cut document editing latencies by over 80%, now co-leading a rearchitecture to improve reliability, scalability, and containerization. He combines low-level systems instincts with product impact—optimizing memory and latency while ensuring privacy- and cost-aware designs. Nelson also contributes occasional performance fixes to open-source projects like FFmpeg and SharpZipLib, and has a background teaching systems programming at Columbia. Outside work he has a long-standing penchant for modding SimCity 4, signaling curiosity about complex emergent systems beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Harvard University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation, Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation at Massapequa High School