Nick Magerko
Software Engineer, P2P Distribution at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNick Magerko is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently focused on scaling and simplifying Meta's service discovery and P2P distribution. He has driven architectural changes that reduced maintenance overhead and removed critical bottlenecks, while embedding security controls across thousands of services and leading internal threat analyses. His background includes unifying real-time stream processing, production-grade tooling for high-throughput trading systems, and experimental VR research from his university work. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure—having enhanced the zstd CLI with streaming and size-hint features—he blends low-level systems thinking with pragmatic backend engineering. Based in New York, he pairs deep distributed-systems expertise with a knack for turning research prototypes into reliable, auditable production services.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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Github Skills (20)
compression-algorithm10
command-line-interface10
zstandard10
c1110
c1710
command-line10
cli10
testing9
shell8
sh8
script8
scripting8
version-control6
sdk6
windows6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/zstd
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) for the Zstandard (zstd) compression tool. They implemented a new `--stream-size` option, enabling optimization for streaming input, and also introduced a `--size-hint` option. Furthermore, the user adjusted file input/output mechanisms and integrated these functionalities into the test suite. The commits include refactoring and fixing the test cases, ensuring that the new features function correctly.
compression-algorithmzstandard
ConversationIM/backend
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:24 PRs, 61 pushes, 22 branches in 2 months
apibackendnodejsbackend-api
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