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.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (36)
mbed10
snap10
ubuntu10
lwm2m9
gateway9
snapcraft9
operating-system9
logging9
iot8
yocto8
firmware7
rmi6
oma6
iot-application6
meta-layer6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
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
logging
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
ubuntuiotsnapsnapcraft
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