Nicholas Jones

Software Engineer

Nicholas Jones is a seasoned software engineer with extensive experience across multiple prestigious organizations including UpGuard, LIFX, and Google. At UpGuard, Nicholas serves as a software engineer since May 2023. Previously, as a principal engineer at LIFX from March 2017 to August 2022, Nicholas played a key role in scaling traffic and reducing latency through effective migration to high-performance microservices. While at Google from September 2011 to February 2017, Nicholas was the tech lead for YouTube's Community feature, focusing on building a creator-focused social product. Nicholas's early career involved diverse roles in software development and research, including positions at Telstra, the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University, and the University of Amsterdam, culminating in a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University.

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