Nicholas Brown
Software Engineer at Graphiant
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Brown is a seasoned software engineer based in Edinburgh with over two decades of experience in embedded networking and more than a decade in hands-on industry roles. He has driven core network features at Cisco, helped build IOU/dIOU virtual router platforms, and later led NOS delivery work for AT&T’s disaggregated white-box initiatives (Vyatta/DANOS). Currently at Graphiant, he focuses on production-grade network software and operational tooling, drawing on deep expertise in platform-independent control/data plane design and high-availability ISSU solutions. A pragmatic engineer and former Scrum Master, he has also been a go-to Git expert who created team-wide workflows and CI infrastructure from scratch. His background blends research-calibre thinking (Senior Research Fellow at EPCCed) with a strong track record of turning protocol and platform complexity into reusable, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (22)
compiler-design10
python9
fpga8
api8
channel8
resnet8
scipy8
semaphore7
compiler7
metal6
low-level-programming6
asynchronous-tasks6
asynchronous6
async6
tailwindcss5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FPGAtestbed/fpgatestbed.github.io
Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:151 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 5 months
xdslproject/ftn
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
xDSL Fortran support functionality
Contributions:7 PRs, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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