Summary
Nicolas Chavez is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading Google Ad Manager and Video SDKs from Paris after time in NYC. He specializes in bringing video ads to web, mobile, and connected TV platforms, blending deep engineering with product-facing SDK design. A Harvard-trained computer scientist with internships at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and Animoto, he pairs strong systems and frontend skills with a curiosity for 3D graphics, robotics, programming languages, and computer vision. He maintains a public portfolio of projects on his website, reflecting a habit of designing and shipping tangible prototypes in addition to production systems. Quietly, his background as a head course assistant in linear algebra suggests he brings rigorous mathematical thinking to engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science Degree, Secondary in Economics, Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science Degree, Secondary in Economics, Computer Science at Harvard University
Science Honors Program, Science Honors Program at Columbia University
Stuyvesant High School
Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Japanese