Nicolas Noble
Technical Lead & Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
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Nicolas Noble is a Technical Lead and software engineer with 21 years of experience building high-performance C++ systems, distributed services, embedded software, and networking, currently leading engineering at NVIDIA after a decade at Google. He has deep low-level expertise evidenced by substantive contributions to core open-source projects such as gRPC and Protocol Buffers, and hobbyist-to-pro work on console SDKs and emulation (PCSX-Redux, PS2SDK) that reveal a strong systems and reverse-engineering bent. Comfortable across platforms, Nicolas has a track record of improving cross-platform build systems and Windows compatibility while hardening transport and stream behavior in networked runtimes. Based in San Jose, he combines research-rooted rigor (Master’s and PhD-level research experience) with production-grade engineering leadership and hands-on code contributions.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Université de Metz
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c-language10
assembly10
back-end-development10
protocol-buffers10
windows10
build-system10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
low-level-programming10
sys10
bazel10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
grumpycoders/pcsx-redux
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
The PCSX-Redux project is a collection of tools, research, hardware design, and libraries aiming at development and reverse engineering on the PlayStation 1. The core product itself, PCSX-Redux, is yet another fork of the Playstation emulator, PCSX.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:487 reviews, 3129 commits, 2624 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to the development and maintenance of a PlayStation 1 emulator project. Their commits primarily focused on code-level changes within the emulator's source code, including fixing bugs, implementing new functionality (such as improved CD-ROM support and audio enhancements), and refactoring existing code. The user's work included modifications to core components, handling DMA operations, and incorporating Lua scripting.
emulatorplaystation-emulatornintendo-3dsfocusedengineering
grpc/grpc
Nov 2014 - Jun 2022
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 154 reviews, 1960 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily worked on cHTTP2 transport-related files within the gRPC repository, contributing to the core backend functionality of gRPC. Their work included code changes related to stream management, specifically related to how the deadline is set for initial metadata, and how to handle ping responses and their related errors. Additionally, their changes included modifications to ensure proper resource cleanup during transport destruction and stream deletion, focusing on improved robustness.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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