Nic Jansma
Senior Principal Lead Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolNic Jansma is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in web performance, observability, and web standards, currently shaping Cloudflare’s observability platform and performance features. A longtime standards contributor, he co-chairs the W3C Web Performance Working Group and the RUM Community Group, driving practical improvements to how the web measures and delivers speed. His career spans leadership roles at Akamai, Microsoft (where he helped build IE9/IE10 performance features), and SOASTA, alongside founding several web-focused ventures dating back to the 1990s. Nic is an active open-source contributor—his performance enhancements to the popular request/request HTTP client added detailed timings and keep-alive support—reflecting a blend of hands-on engineering and protocol-level thinking. Based in Grand Rapids, he pairs entrepreneurial roots with deep systems expertise to make fast, measurable experiences for users worldwide.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (15)
http10
javascript10
nodejs10
performance-optimization10
profiling9
testing9
windows9
crash-reports6
html6
scheduled-tasks6
google-chrome6
batchfile6
timing6
command-line6
windows-vista6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
request/request
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 29 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nic primarily focused on enhancing the performance and providing detailed timing metrics for the `request` library. They implemented a `.timings` array to track various phases of an HTTP request, including DNS lookup, connection establishment, and response times. Further contributions involved refactoring the timing mechanism to use the `performance-now` library, and added a test suite for timing-related functionalities. Moreover, they added support for keep-alive connections.
apihttp-requesthttp-clientjavascriptsimplified
nicjansma/resourcetiming-compression.js
Nov 2014 - Aug 2022
Contributions:23 releases, 4 reviews, 69 commits in 7 years 10 months
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