Nicholas Hunter
Software Development Engineer at Mapbox
Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Hunter is a pragmatic software development engineer with two decades of hands-on experience and a focused 11-year career building scalable server-side systems, now contributing at Mapbox. He has deep expertise in distributed data pipelines, real-time ingest and streaming (AWS Kinesis, WebSockets), high-performance geospatial tooling, and cloud migrations—having cut a 70–90 minute process down to seconds with a Python/C solution. Nicholas has designed large-scale tile and alerting systems serving millions of daily requests, authored custom performance-focused libraries (including an S3 fork using user-level threads), and led teams through safer release and CI/CD practices. Based in Norman, Oklahoma, he combines research-rooted systems thinking from his MS in Computer Science with practical engineering that turns meteorological and geospatial complexity into reliable, low-latency services.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Oklahoma
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Github Skills (128)
amazon-kinesis10
windows10
encoding10
3d10
linux10
jts10
cross-platform10
java10
vector10
android10
kinesis-stream10
sentinel10
ios10
mapbox-vector-tile10
libgdx10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wdtinc/mapbox-vector-tile-java
Feb 2016 - Apr 2019
Java Mapbox Vector Tile Library for Encoding/Decoding
Contributions:61 commits, 27 PRs, 47 pushes in 3 years 2 months
decodingmapboxtileencodingvector-tile
wdtinc/skywise_mb_android_example
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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