Nikolas Thornton
Student Supervisor At The Esports And Gaming Lounge at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolas Thornton is a Computer Science student at Georgia Tech with eight years of hands-on experience threading tutoring, research, and technical support into practical software work. He currently supervises operations and student staff at an esports lounge while previously building provenance-tracking databases and dynamic testing frameworks for ML experiments during an Ansys CASE internship. His research background includes designing a photon-based hardware RNG and authoring custom Python analysis tools and a novel randomness test, demonstrating a strong experimental and systems bent. Nikolas also has classroom and outreach experience teaching programming and robotics to K–12 students and tutoring college CS courses, reflecting clear communication and mentorship skills. Outside of engineering he’s a multi-instrument musician and Rubik’s Cube speedsolver, a combination that hints at disciplined practice, pattern recognition, and creative problem solving. Based in Atlanta, he blends practical backend skills (Python, SQLAlchemy, GraphQL) with a curiosity for hardware and testing that surfaces in both research and industry projects.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern Crescent Technical CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyKennesaw State University - (CCSE) College of Computing and Software EngineeringClayton State UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nTh0rn/nth0rn.github.io
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:102 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
nTh0rn/Olas
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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