Nicolas Hite
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Hite is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and wearable robotics that bridge physical and digital interaction. He has shipped infrastructure and front-end platforms at Google and led engineering at Skip, while at X he worked on moonshot wearable projects aimed at improving mobility for millions. A pragmatic coder and open-source contributor, Nicolas has contributed to prominent Dart projects such as google/protobuf.dart and grpc-dart, improving protocol runtime, browser parity, and serialization robustness. His personal experience with congenital limb absence uniquely informs his design philosophy: reimagining prosthetics not as replicas but as multimodal interfaces that blend mechanical, computer-vision, and AR-driven interactions. He combines hands-on systems engineering with biomechatronics research roots from MIT Media Lab and Harvard, enabling him to move fluid concepts into production hardware and software. Nicolas brings a rare mix of lived accessibility perspective, large-scale product experience, and low-level protocol expertise.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Sciences, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering Sciences, Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University
Spanish
Github Skills (8)
dart10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
json-serialization9
code-generation9
testing8
exception-handling8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
google/protobuf.dart
Oct 2018 - Jun 2021
Runtime library for Dart protobufs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 18 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily worked on the core library for Dart protobufs. Their contributions include synchronizing changes from an internal repository, which involved modifications to the `BuilderInfo` class, the addition of Kythe metadata, and fixing JSON serialization issues. They also addressed code generation problems and updated documentation, ensuring the library's functionality and usability.
dartprotobuf
grpc/grpc-dart
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
The Dart language implementation of gRPC.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily focused on refactoring and improving the gRPC Dart implementation. This involved replacing legacy code such as `Future<Null>` with `Future<void>`, and removing unnecessary keywords, contributing to code modernization. They also added browser features to gRPC-web for parity with JS implementation, improving browser support and functionality. Furthermore, they beefed up the exception handling in the code.
dart-languagegrpcdart
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