Nikolai Vazquez
Senior Internal Systems Engineer at Zoo
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Vazquez is a Senior Internal Systems Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, tooling, and developer-facing libraries, currently based in Atlanta. He blends systems-level Rust and Swift expertise with a strong open-source pedigree—authoring the FileKit Swift library and contributing performance and memory improvements to projects like ReadySet and the ggez game engine. His background includes roles at startups and notable companies (FullStory, Twitch, Apple), where he focused on compiler-adjacent work, iOS engineering, and scalable caching layers. A creative polymath—also a graphic designer and musician—he brings a designer’s eye and multidisciplinary curiosity to pragmatic engineering problems, and is unapologetically an Oxford comma enthusiast.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Christopher Columbus High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universität DresdenBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Boston University
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (18)
caching10
file-management10
postgresql10
game-engine10
back-end-development10
swift10
rust10
game-development10
testing9
dataflow9
software-design9
dataflow-programming9
audio-processing9
databases9
sql9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nvzqz/FileKit
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Simple and expressive file management in Swift
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 335 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai was the primary developer of the FileKit library. Their contributions involved the creation and implementation of core file management features, including the `File` and `Path` abstractions, along with operators and methods for common file operations. They expanded functionality to include features such as file creation, deletion, reading, and writing, along with standardized and absolute path handling. Furthermore, they implemented tests, and the library's functionality was then extended to handle text and plist files.
swiftpaths
readysettech/readyset
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Readyset is a MySQL and Postgres wire-compatible caching layer that sits in front of existing databases to speed up queries and horizontally scale read throughput. Under the hood, ReadySet caches the results of cached select statements and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data changes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai primarily contributed to the ReadySet caching layer by implementing and refining features related to PostgreSQL support. They addressed issues with PostgreSQL client library compatibility, allowing for specific identifiers. The user made significant changes to improve code maintainability and reduce the binary size of the `noria-server` component through refactoring efforts. Additionally, they worked on expanding the functionality of the dataflow expression engine.
cachingdatabasedatabasesmysqlpostgresql
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