Nicolas Bock
Lead Member Of Technical Staff At Tableau, A Salesforce Company at Tableau Software
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Bock is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Tableau (Salesforce) with 17 years of experience building scalable, data-focused systems and developer tools. His background spans high-performance scientific computing at CERN and Complete Genomics to cloud infrastructure and security work at DNAnexus, blending deep computational physics training with practical software engineering. He has shipped desktop clients, smart caching and networking layers early in his career, and later implemented autoscaling, TLS/FIPS security, and SDK enhancements for production platforms. An active open-source contributor, he has improved widely used OpenStack documentation and contributed Gentoo science ebuilds, reflecting attention to reproducible deployments and packaging. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings a rare combination of algorithmic rigor, hands-on systems design, and strong technical writing that helps teams operationalize complex workflows.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computational Physics, MSc, Computational Physics at The Ohio State UniversityUniversidad de los Andes
English, Spanish, German, French
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Github Skills (27)
package-management10
ebuild10
technical-writing10
gentoo10
bash10
openstack10
installer10
postinstall10
installers10
documentation10
c-language9
suse9
cprogramming-language9
science8
overlay8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo/sci
Jun 2012 - Jul 2015
[MIRROR] Gentoo Science Overlay
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:180 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas's commits primarily involve adding and modifying Gentoo ebuilds, which are build scripts for software packages. They added a draft version of the LAMMPS package, fixed bugs in the sys-cluster/charm package, and merged branches. These contributions show involvement in package management, building software, and integrating dependencies within a Gentoo environment, using bash scripts. The user also demonstrated understanding of version control and integrating changes through merging.
ebuildgentooscienceoverlay
openstack/openstack-manuals
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to updating and improving the OpenStack installation guides and documentation. Their work involved replacing outdated client commands, modifying installation steps to reflect package updates, and adding notes about configuration specifics for different distributions like SUSE. These changes enhance the accuracy and usability of the installation documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
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