Nick Cao
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNick Cao is a software engineer and active Rust open-source contributor based in Boston with a decade of engineering experience. Currently a software engineer at Red Hat and a Nixpkgs committer, he focuses on reproducible, package-centric tooling and systems-level Rust development. His background includes an engineering internship at Red Hat and graduate study in electrical and computer engineering at Boston University after earning a computer science BE from Tsinghua. Nick blends practical production work with community-driven maintenance, regularly contributing to the Nix ecosystem and other open-source projects. Colleagues describe him as a rustacean who cares about hermetic builds, developer ergonomics, and long-lived infrastructure. He brings a research-informed perspective to pragmatic engineering, often surfacing subtle build and dependency issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University
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Github Skills (200)
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julia10
llama10
nixpkgs10
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llm10
privacy10
command-line10
notebook10
python10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
NickCao/nixpkgs
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 5220 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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NickCao/linux
Feb 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:82 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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