Nicholas Deakin
Staff Software Engineer On Google Photos
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Deakin is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Photos with 12 years of experience specializing in media, color, and graphics, particularly High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging and display. He designs and implements media formats and support across Android and Google’s ecosystem, including work on Ultra HDR and participation in international photography standards (ISO TC 42 and IT 10). A pragmatic C++ systems engineer who also codes in Kotlin and Java, he prefers working close to hardware, bytes, and pixels and has deep experience with Vulkan from his Stadia tooling work. Nicholas blends product-focused craftsmanship—shaping how memories are represented visually—with thoughtful engineering judgment about what to build and how to persuade stakeholders it matters. He’s eager to bring that low-level expertise to new systems and explore Rust for future projects.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
bug-tracker10
vulkan6
redux6
webpack5
react5
visualization5
javascript4
statistics4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ndeakin/ski
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:102 commits in 9 months
ndeakin/vulkan_test_applications
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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