Nick Tindall
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Tindall is a Principal Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 12 years of experience building robust, high-performance backend systems and shaping application architecture across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on Java expertise with deep experience in distributed systems, low-latency messaging and persistence—as reflected in contributions to notable open-source projects such as Chronicle-Map, Chronicle-Queue and Elasticsearch. Nick is comfortable leading teams and mentoring engineers while also improving test infrastructure and reliability at the code level, often fixing subtle multi-process and concurrency issues. His work shows a practical focus on correctness and performance: from thread-affinity fixes to localized timestamp handling and resilient queue tailer management. He holds a Masters in Distributed Computing and a BSc (Hons) in Maths & Computer Science, bringing both rigorous academic grounding and decades of pragmatic delivery. Colleagues describe him as a creative problem solver who thrives on mentoring and tackling the tricky edge cases that break production.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Maths & Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Maths & Computer Science at University of AdelaideThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (35)
api-rest10
debug10
performance-monitor10
multithreading10
api-design10
restful-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
low-latency10
binary-format10
data-serialization10
queuing10
java10
serialization10
latency10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHFT/Java-Thread-Affinity
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Bind a java thread to a given core
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the `java-thread-affinity` repository by addressing bugs, improving the test suite, and enhancing code maintainability. They focused on fixing issues related to lock acquisition and process interactions, especially in multi-process scenarios. Additionally, they implemented test enhancements, including platform-specific conditional tests, and refactored the test infrastructure, making it more robust and reliable. Their work demonstrates proficiency in Java, testing methodologies, and understanding of affinity lock mechanisms.
affintiybindthreadjava-threadjava
OpenHFT/Chronicle-Queue
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Micro second messaging that stores everything to disk
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:289 reviews, 139 commits, 195 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on improving the chronicle-queue library by addressing issues related to acquiring and managing tailers, a core component of the system. They implemented changes to handle closing tailers, preventing errors when accessing closed queues, and improving double-buffering functionality. Their work involved adding new tests to prevent regressions and ensure correct behavior, especially in multi-threaded scenarios. These commits demonstrate an understanding of the queue's internal mechanics and optimization for performance.
storeseverythingpublisherchronicleartemis
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