Nicole Gizzo
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Gizzo is a software engineer at Google with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and developer tooling while completing a BS in Computer Science with a Cognitive Science minor at Rensselaer. She blends cognitive-science insight with engineering practice, having developed games for neurocognitive analysis and researched cognitive performance related to sleep disorders. At Google she contributed to the well-known open-source google/gnostic project, implementing multi-version OpenAPI processing, proto generation, and vocabulary summarization features that bridge API spec semantics and practical codegen. Her background includes internships at USGS and a surgical-shadowing stint that reflect a curiosity for applying tech to real-world domains. She’s also coached peers and younger students as a TA, tutoring chair, and instructor, demonstrating strong mentoring and communication skills. Based in New York, Nicole brings a rare combination of research-informed product thinking and production-grade backend engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Eastchester Senior High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Junior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
code-generation10
go10
api10
protocol-buffers10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
data-structure9
openapi9
data-structures9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/gnostic
May 2020 - Aug 2020
A compiler for APIs described by the OpenAPI Specification with plugins for code generation and other API support tasks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the vocabulary application. They implemented new features, including the creation of a new app and support for multiple versions (V2 and V3) of OpenAPI specifications. They focused on processing documents, extracting information, and generating proto code, demonstrating a strong understanding of data structures and API specifications. Further contributions included the development of a summarize-vocabulary application, which involved reading, processing, and summarizing vocabulary data, and also included the development of the operation for vocabulary operations.
openapi-codegenprotocol-bufferscode-generationlintersapi
gizzon/gnostic
May 2020 - Aug 2020
A compiler for APIs described by the OpenAPI Specification with plugins for code generation and other API support tasks.
Contributions:47 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
apicode-generationopenapi-specificationspecificationcompiler
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