Nickolas Mccoll is a software engineer and backend tech lead in Los Angeles with 11 years of technical experience, currently building systems at Google that deliver advertising benchmarks at scale. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor and production engineering from a Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics and four years of hands-on CERN CMS research as a UCLA postdoc, which informs his approach to complex data pipelines and statistically robust systems. Comfortable leading teams, he focuses on reliable, measurable backend services that translate experimental precision into business metrics. His background suggests a strong aptitude for designing systems that bridge large-scale scientific computation and commercial analytics.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Palma High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of California, Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Elementary Particle Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara
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