Nic Haynes
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Haynes is a Senior System Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience across rideshare, healthcare, IoT, and e-commerce, currently building systems at NVIDIA after leadership roles at Lyft and UnitedHealth Group. He combines system-level engineering with front-end fluency—evident from contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Foundation and Redux DevTools—and has shipped embedded tooling work in QMK firmware. Known for a decade of mentoring and growing engineering teams, Nic fosters continuous learning and pragmatic engineering practices. Based in Nashville, he pairs a Mass Communication degree with deep technical breadth, often improving usability and developer workflows through thoughtful UI and automation enhancements.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mass Communication/Media Studies, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mass Communication/Media Studies at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (43)
javascript10
c-language10
atmel10
qmk-firmware10
foundation10
firmware10
css10
rails10
qmk10
foundation-sites10
c1110
ui-design10
makefile10
keyboard10
erb10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nic contributed to the QMK firmware project by implementing features related to keyboard flashing and configuration. Specifically, they added an `avrdude` target to the `rules.mk` file, automating the process of flashing the keyboard firmware using the avrdude utility. They further refined the flashing process by implementing a check for serial ports and made the code more portable across different shells. Additionally, the user ported keyboard layouts for the BananaSplit keyboard.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
reduxjs/redux-devtools
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
DevTools for Redux with hot reloading, action replay, and customizable UI
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focused on improving the user interface and styling of the Redux DevTools. Their contributions include styling buttons using flexbox, enhancing the visual states of UI elements, and adjusting padding and indentation for better readability. They also updated the color theme, fixed color issues, and made several changes to the JSONTree component, including highlight colors and node color modifications.
reactreplaycustomizable-uicustomizableredux
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