Nick Garvey
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Garvey is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and streaming infrastructure, currently focused on storage/Kafka systems at Reddit. He previously drove reliability and scalability for one of the world's largest Kafka platforms at LinkedIn and led production engineering for Facebook's ads ranking offline training platform, tackling capacity planning, incident response, and efficiency at massive scale. A generalist across the stack, Nick combines hands-on infrastructure work with mentorship and team leadership, having stood up on-call rotations and internal tooling to improve operational health. He has deep expertise in data processing pipelines and job scheduling, and a knack for translating capacity and throughput requirements into practical engineering decisions. Based in California, he blends an academic foundation in computational mathematics from RIT with pragmatic production experience. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers measurable reliability wins over flashy architecture, favoring incremental gains that move systems forward.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science/Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science/Computational Mathematics at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (84)
home-assistant10
streaming10
java10
jekyll10
htpc9
qt9
pandas9
steam9
python9
gtk9
matplotlib9
flashing9
samsung9
data-science9
data-structure9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nickgarvey/wtfs
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
nickgarvey/mtg-dropbox
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
Quick analysis on decks in a folder. I use this to organize a Dropbox full of decks
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
decksdropboxorganizepython
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