Nick Babcock
Staff Software Engineer at Motif
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNick Babcock is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems using React, Next.js, Python, Rust, and Postgres, currently based in Chicago. He has led flagship product development and specializes in both design language and low-level performance optimization—writing latency-sensitive code with SIMD/SWAR techniques. Nick is a team up-leveler who blends hands-on engineering with mentoring and architectural leadership across startups and mid-size companies, including recent roles at Dropbox and Dropps. An active open-source contributor, his back-end work on projects like LibreHardwareMonitor and Dropwizard focuses on reliability, security, and performance, and his libraries/apps have surpassed 2 million downloads. Notably, he pairs high-level product thinking with deep systems chops, often fixing subtle timing and NIC-monitoring bugs that improve real-world observability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of Michigan
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monitoring10
ssl10
tls1210
monitor10
testing10
tls1310
network-programming10
hardware10
java10
system-monitoring10
security10
dropwizard10
javas10
performance-optimization10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
dropwizard/dropwizard
Mar 2014 - Aug 2019
A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 304 commits, 241 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Dropwizard framework by implementing features related to secure communication protocols, particularly in the `HttpsConnectorFactory` class. Their work focused on enhancing security by adding the ability to blacklist cipher suites and ensuring correct handling of SSL/TLS configurations. Furthermore, the user implemented additional tests to safeguard against regressions and documented their changes, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability.
production-readyweb-services-restfulrestful-webservicesjax-rsproduction
LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor
Oct 2018 - Jun 2022
Libre Hardware Monitor, home of the fork of Open Hardware Monitor
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the network reporting functionality of the Libre Hardware Monitor. They addressed several bugs and performance issues related to network interface card (NIC) monitoring. Key contributions include fixing refresh logic, optimizing performance, reworking the reporting system with monotonic timers, and correcting issues with interface statistics resets. They also made changes related to handling and loading NVIDIA Management Library.
libre-hardware-monitormonitorhardware-monitoringlibresystem-monitor
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