Nick Jones
Principal Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
London, England, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Jones is a Principal Systems Engineer with 15 years’ experience building high-performance edge networking and traffic processing systems, currently leading systems engineering at Cloudflare from London. He has deep hands-on expertise in OS-level platform engineering, clustering, load balancing and protocol proxies developed over a long tenure at Network Box where he led R&D and brought systemd to RHEL6 and achieved IPv6Ready certification for security products. Nick pairs low-level systems work with practical product delivery—designing package management, remote update, and virtualization adaptations that scaled global infrastructure migrations. An active contributor to the ngtcp2 QUIC implementation, he’s added retransmit backoff, graceful-exit handling and debug-focused improvements, showing attention to robustness and future telemetry. He combines an academic foundation in computer science and mathematics with a propensity for solving protocol and operational edge cases that most engineers never see.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Mathematics, BSc, Computer Science, Mathematics at University of Canterbury
Github Skills (5)
c1710
c1110
quic10
networking10
udp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ngtcp2/ngtcp2
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
ngtcp2 project is an effort to implement IETF QUIC protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 19 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the ngtcp2 project, focused on implementing the IETF QUIC protocol. Their work included enhancing debugging capabilities in client/server examples by adding compiler flags for debugging symbols and stricter warnings. The user also added a retransmit counter for packets, implementing backoff mechanisms to prevent flooding and adding the foundation for future telemetry features. Furthermore, the user implemented graceful exit handling by adding a SIGINT handler and implementing a mechanism to close connections on exit.
quicudpnetworkingprotocolc
nickfajones/libapoa
Apr 2011 - May 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 6 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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