Nicholas Banks
Software Engineer (L6) at Netflix
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Banks is a senior transport protocols engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance networking stacks at Microsoft and Netflix, currently driving transport work for Netflix’s Open Connect Appliance. He led development of MsQuic—the cross-platform QUIC implementation now serving billions of HTTP/3 requests—and has deep hands-on expertise across IP, UDP, TCP, QUIC and tunneling technologies. Known for bridging product teams across Windows, Azure, Xbox and more, he pairs rigorous automation and stress testing practices with pragmatic API stewardship to deliver resilient, scalable networking. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed core issues in Google’s OpenThread and brings embedded/IoT debugging experience to distributed systems design. Based in Apex, NC, he also manages a ~$100K PTA budget, reflecting operational rigor beyond engineering.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Stackoverflow
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80answers
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Github Skills (25)
openthread10
c-language10
ieee10
iot10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
messaging9
message-system9
debug9
debugging9
java9
network-protocol9
message-handler9
messagebox9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openthread/openthread
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 99 PRs, 675 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the OpenThread implementation, an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol. Their contributions involved addressing issues in core common components like message handling and message resizing to avoid buffer overruns, as well as incorporating support for client-supplied context pointers to existing callback implementations. They also updated the CLI commands related to network configuration.
googlewirelessipv6networkingieee-802154
microsoft/undocked
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Simplifies the process of building internal, native Windows projects
Contributions:24 reviews, 37 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year
windows
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