Nic Jones
Staff Software Engineer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNic Jones is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience specializing in Android app reliability for Instagram, where he has progressed from Software Engineer to Staff Engineer focused on protecting and improving the mobile user experience. His background spans large-scale mobile platforms at Facebook and deep operational work—optimizing HBase clusters, building real-time Kafka pipelines, and automating infrastructure—that informs a systems-minded approach to app stability. Equally comfortable with low-level performance work and higher-level product reliability, he brings interests in AI, robotics, computer vision, security, and networking to bear on practical reliability problems. Not currently seeking opportunities, Nic combines hands-on engineering with production-first thinking to keep billion-user apps resilient.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Science Computer Science with Concentration in Cyber Operations, Bachelor’s of Science Computer Science with Concentration in Cyber Operations at Northeastern University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
duplicates6
println6
accumulate6
sorting6
java6
database5
python5
syntax-highlighting5
psql4
postgresql4
cli3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
njhazelh/Networking-Fundamentals-s2015
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:88 commits, 1 push in 4 months
njhazelh/nick-jones.me
Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
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