Nia Watts
Staff Software Engineer at Splunk
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNia Watts is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on building observability systems, developer tooling, CI, and libraries to improve developer productivity and code resilience. Based in Golden, Colorado, she has advanced through engineering roles at Splunk since 2018, moving from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer after prior experience at VictorOps and the Colorado School of Mines. She specializes in creating developer-centric infrastructure that makes teams more consistent and reliable, combining hands-on implementation with a clear emphasis on usability for fellow engineers. Nia’s background in high-performance computing informs her pragmatic approach to scalable, production-ready tooling. Colleagues describe her as the kind of engineer who invests in the unglamorous but high-leverage work—CI, observability, and libraries—that pays dividends across organizations. She holds a BS in Computer Science from the Colorado School of Mines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
English
Github Skills (118)
hyper10
modular10
nette10
axum10
tower10
identicon10
image10
google-recaptcha10
collapsible9
command-line-parser9
rust9
ubuntu9
styled-components9
recaptcha9
argument-parsing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
conways-glider/fluffy-samurai
Nov 2018 - Sep 2023
My Personal Site
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
reactnextjs
conways-glider/identicon-rs
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
A simple identicon implementation in rust
Contributions:19 releases, 5 reviews, 95 commits in 3 years 11 months
rust-libraryimageidenticonrustrust-lang
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