Nicolas Noble
Technical Lead Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Jose, California, United States
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Nicolas Noble is a Technical Lead Software Engineer based in San Jose with 21 years of experience and recent roles at NVIDIA after a decade at Google. He brings deep expertise in C++, distributed systems, embedded software and networking, with a practical knack for cross-platform build automation and Windows compatibility. An active open-source contributor, he has improved foundational projects like Protocol Buffers and gRPC while also contributing to console-focused work (PS2SDK, PCSX-Redux), showing a rare blend of cloud-scale backend engineering and low-level C/firmware hacking. He began his career in systems and Linux administration, holds a Master's in Computer Science, and is known for stabilizing complex build systems and extracting performance from tight, platform-specific code.
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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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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