Nicholas Cristofaro
Software Engineer at The Things Industries
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Cristofaro is a software engineer based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and infrastructure for cloud-native and IoT platforms. Currently at The Things Industries, he contributes to The Things Stack—a widely used open-source LoRaWAN network server—adding features around gateway connection statistics, TTL configs, and registry integration. His background spans research in evolutionary multi-objective algorithms and practical work on microservices tooling at Inspr, showing an ability to move between experimental code and production-grade systems. Early roles in web development and system repair grounded him in clean code practices and pragmatic debugging. Colleagues know him for thoughtful problem solving and steady contributions to open-source projects that bridge networking, telemetry, and backend reliability.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (12)
go10
redis10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
lorawan10
backend9
back-end-development9
iot9
api8
docker8
dockers8
apidoc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheThingsNetwork/lorawan-stack
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The Things Stack, an Open Source LoRaWAN Network Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:251 reviews, 180 commits, 172 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nicholas's contributions primarily involve adding and modifying fields and functionalities related to gateway connection statistics and configuration settings within the LoRaWAN stack. They added a 'disconnected_at' field to gateway.proto, integrated the handling of connection statistics, and introduced TTL configurations for connection statistics. Furthermore, the user updated the registry interface to accommodate the new features, and added a test case for the registry, as well as a test to create a testcase in redis registry.
ttnloranetwork-serverlorawaniot
nicholaspcr/GoDE
Dec 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 111 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 3 months
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