Nick Macholl
Senior Software Engineer at Databento
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Macholl is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and testing high-reliability systems across finance, defense, and data infrastructure. Currently at Databento, he brings a background in systems integration and test from Tower Research Capital and Northrop Grumman, pairing rigorous verification practices with pragmatic software delivery. Trained as a physicist (BS, MS), he applies a quantitative, experiment-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization. Based in Reno, Nevada, Nick excels at bridging complex hardware-software boundaries and shipping robust, production-grade tooling for latency-sensitive environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Loyola University ChicagoMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago
English
Github Skills (51)
low-latency10
http10
historical10
api10
encoding10
tcp10
zstd10
compression9
async9
python9
serialization9
zero-copy9
storage9
delta9
rust9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nmacholl/dotfiles
May 2022 - Apr 2025
My collection of configuration files.
Contributions:1 PR, 55 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
topnerd/databento-toys
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
A sandbox for databento-python.
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 months
python
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