Nick Nussbaum
Senior Software Engineer at Tableau Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nussbaum is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with over three decades of experience building text composition, page layout, and UI systems in C++ and C#, currently shaping Tableau Desktop’s user interface. His career spans foundational roles at Adobe, Visio/Microsoft, and FTI/Attenex, where he rewrote core text engines and delivered legal document visualization tools, blending deep typography and layout expertise with practical product delivery. He’s contributed to the Vowpal Wabbit project by modernizing Windows build processes and cross-architecture compilation, reflecting a knack for pragmatic DevOps and cross-platform build engineering. Known for solving compatibility and runtime deployment challenges, he brings rare domain knowledge at the intersection of text rendering, machine-assisted text analysis, and polished desktop UX.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. E.E & C.S., Computer Science, B.S. E.E & C.S., Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
windows10
build-system10
c-language10
visual-studio10
cprogramming-language10
cmake9
devops8
machine-learning7
cpp7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 6 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on updating the Vowpal Wabbit build process and dependencies, particularly for Windows. They upgraded Boost and Zlib versions, addressing compatibility issues with Visual Studio 2013. The user also created a batch script for deploying the Vowpal Wabbit executable, including the necessary C++ redistributable runtime DLLs, and made adjustments to the solution file to correctly build cs_test and c_test configurations. Further, they made changes to the solution to improve compilation on different architectures.
hashingtechniquescpppythonactive-learning
nicknussbaum/vowpal_wabbit
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 months
wabbitmachine-learningonline-learningvowpal-wabbitlearning-algorithm
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