Nicholas Ewalt
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarNicholas Ewalt is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems at scale across Google and Waymo, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has progressed from software and verification engineering roles to senior and staff positions, bringing deep expertise in low-level systems and production-grade services. Nicholas contributes to the popular nRF Connect SDK, improving time handling, network download robustness, and adding local time APIs—signals of strong embedded and IoT instincts alongside cloud-scale engineering. He blends hardware-aware debugging experience from his early design verification work with modern distributed systems practices honed at Google. Known for shipping pragmatic fixes that prevent subtle runtime failures, he gravitates toward durable, observable solutions in complex stacks. Colleagues rely on him to bridge chip-to-cloud concerns and deliver dependable infrastructure that withstands real-world edge conditions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
c1710
embedded10
datetime10
date-format10
dates10
sdk10
c1110
sys10
networking9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nrfconnect/sdk-nrf
Mar 2022 - May 2022
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 2 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributes to the nRF Connect SDK, focusing on low-level system functionalities. Their work includes fixing bugs related to time conversions, such as converting uptime to UTC time. They also improved the download client by addressing issues like socket timeouts and header parsing in the context of network operations. Furthermore, the user added a local time API function.
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdkinfinibandlteppp
ewalt1/nanopb
Mar 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
code-sizeprotocol-buffersprotobufgrpcsmall-code
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