Nick Mayer
Sr. Software Engineer at Google
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Mayer is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience designing portable, developer-friendly GUIs and robust lower-level systems for companies like Google and Garmin. He blends hands-on C++ and full-stack development with architectural leadership, having driven UI frameworks across embedded and desktop platforms and introduced Git-based best practices at scale. At Google he contributes to Drive technologies, and his open-source work includes enhancing Git Extensions' checkout UX to give users a safer, more flexible workflow. Previously he led teams building ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure and nanosecond-scale monitoring tools at Tradebot, demonstrating fluency in both performance-critical and user-facing domains. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he favors pragmatic designs that maximize code reuse across diverse OSes and devices. Colleagues rely on him for clean technical design, strong coding, and thoughtful inter-application communication strategies.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (5)
windows-forms10
git10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gitextensions/gitextensions
May 2010 - Dec 2011
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:100 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick implemented features for the standalone UI tool for managing git repositories by adding a "force" option to the checkout functionality. They modified the UI by adding a checkbox and incorporating it into the "FormCheckout" and "FormCheckoutBranch" designs and associated code. Their contributions appear focused on enhancing the user experience and flexibility of the Git Extensions tool's checkout operations.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
nickmayer/FluidNC
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
The next generation of motion control firmware
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
motion-controlnext-generationmotionfirmware
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