Nicolas Villanueva
Sr. Software Engineer at SpaceX
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Villanueva is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building mission-critical systems at SpaceX from Edinburgh. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at SpaceX, evolving from test automation into senior software development, bringing deep expertise in reliability and automation. Prior to SpaceX he led QA and automation efforts at Cardlytics and Vertafore, where he built and refactored large test suites and automated deployment and upgrade processes. Nicolas pairs a Discrete Mathematics degree from Georgia Tech with hands-on experience across CI/CD, UI automation, and infrastructure used for nightly testing. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who moves projects from brittle manual processes to repeatable, auditable pipelines while staying comfortable at both code and system levels.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Discrete Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Discrete Mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (84)
sink10
zksync10
browser10
firefox10
browser-extension10
opera10
brave10
event-sourcing10
plug10
chrome-extension10
metamask10
chrome10
ethereum10
blockchain10
zk10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
matter-labs/anvil-zksync
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
In-memory node that can be used for integration testing and debugging.
Contributions:366 reviews, 170 PRs, 301 pushes in 1 year 4 months
matter-labs/local-setup
Aug 2023 - May 2024
zkSync 2.0 setup for local development
Contributions:7 reviews, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
local-developmentzksync
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