Nic Costa
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Synaptics Incorporated
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Costa is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with two decades of experience building high-performance embedded and user-space applications for IoT and network devices. He has led teams and delivered production systems across embedded Linux gateways, WiFi/Bluetooth stacks, and AI-driven network classification engines, consistently optimizing for constrained environments in C, C++, Python, and Go. Nic combines hands-on implementation with system design—able to architect end-to-end solutions, prototype web UIs and backends, and dive deep into performance-critical code. His work at companies from Qualcomm and ARM to Roku and Synaptics includes dramatic real-world impact, such as cutting Bluetooth UI load times from seconds to milliseconds and shipping secure BLE pairing schemes. Based in San Diego, he’s currently exploring AR development with Unity XR in his spare time, bringing a pragmatic curiosity to emerging interaction platforms.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (53)
mbed10
snap10
ubuntu10
gateway10
sys10
installers10
internet9
snapcraft9
logging9
operating-system8
iot8
raspberry8
lwm2m8
linux8
kernel8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PelionIoT/snap-pelion-edge
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Scripts for generating pelion-edge Ubuntu Core (snap) installers
Contributions:2 releases, 89 reviews, 199 commits in 2 years 6 months
pelioninstallersedgecore-snapsnap
PelionIoT/maestro
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
runtime / sys config / logging / network management for Pelion Edge
Contributions:2 releases, 20 reviews, 141 commits in 2 years 3 months
sysnetwork-managementpelionruntimelogging
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