Nick Bavafa
Software Engineer at Harmonic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Bavafa is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across consumer and cloud platforms, including senior and staff roles at LinkedIn, Coinbase, and AWS. He has deep hands-on experience in search infrastructure, generative AI products, and identity-focused microservices integrating AWS Cognito and observability tooling. Nick pairs a strong research background in bioinformatics and statistical modeling from UC San Diego with an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, which informs his data-driven approach to engineering problems. He moves between full-stack delivery and low-level systems work comfortably—having shipped backend services, frontend frameworks, and automated deployment/monitoring across multi-region environments. Colleagues rely on him for end-to-end ownership and for translating complex privacy and compliance needs into reliable, maintainable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
mobile-application8
julia7
machine-learning2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MurrellGroup/NextGenSeqUtils.jl
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
NextGenSeqUtils:
Contributions:6 releases, 50 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
MurrellGroup/DPMeansClustering.jl
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
DPMeansClustering:
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 10 pushes in 1 month
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