Nick Dacosta
Software Engineer II at MicroStrain by HBK
Swanton, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Dacosta is a Software Engineer II with eight years of hands-on experience building gameplay systems, tools, and embedded software, currently contributing to MicroStrain by HBK. He brings a game-focused engineering background from Champlain College and a MS in Game Programming, with practical experience across VR, WebGL networking, mobile, and systems integration. Known as a self-starter and collaborative teammate, he excels at translating design needs into robust, maintainable code and mentoring peers. Based in rural Vermont, he pairs a problem-solving mindset with cross-domain curiosity (including an HVAC-R technical certificate), which helps him bridge systems thinking and interactive software development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Game Programming, Bachelor of Science - BS Game Programming at Champlain CollegeMaster of Science - MS Game Programming, Master of Science - MS Game Programming at DePaul UniversityCertificate of Completion HVAC-R, Certificate of Completion HVAC-R at Lincoln Tech
Github Skills (14)
esp3210
imu10
dotnet10
labview10
csharp10
python10
slam-algorithms9
ros-driver9
robotics9
iot9
c-library8
embedded8
ros8
slam8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LORD-MicroStrain/imgui
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 4 months
dacuster/GamePhysics
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:84 pushes, 9 branches, 1 tag in 3 months
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