# Nic Donaldson

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicdonaldson

Australian Software Engineer with computer science degree and ~3 years experience split between C/C++ systems/embedded work and HTML/CSS/JS/TS/React/Redux + Ruby on Rails full-stack development.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Triplebyte
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Triplebyte is a jobs site and hiring platform for software engineers. Currently, joining requires taking an online programming skills assessment.

I worked with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, HTML/CSS, Heroku, SQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis.

I worked on the candidate side with other engineers, product, and design on a complex Ruby on Rails web application with more than 100 models and many bespoke, invisibly coupled systems.

- Combined different models of scoring and certification into one semi-coherent "certificate" system, with comprehensive docs about the process and reasoning.
- Took eng lead on a long automated feedback report for job applications. Interpreted and divided a complex specification document, then designed the code so the team could work in parallel. Worked on new QA tools and facilitated a QA session to iron out issues.
- Wrote most of a multi-step NPS collection tool, with rules for when it should be shown, auto-saving, and a channel on Slack to see live feedback.

### Developer @ Seeing Machines
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Canberra, Australia
I worked on the "Guardian" driver fatigue detection and monitoring system.
Worked with C++/C, Python, Bash, Linux, Yocto Linux, AVR, I2C, and Jenkins

- I wrote application interfaces for cameras, temperature sensors, IMUs, and various microcontrollers over I2C and GPIO.
- I worked on applications involving GPS tracking, camera management, image processing, synchronizing with S3, and updating microcontroller firmware.
- Wrote a Tiny Core Linux based USB installer for deploying Yocto Linux OS images, and automated the image creation process with Jenkins CI.
- Debugged and improved (standards compliance, formatting, documentation) firmware for an AVR microcontroller used on an in-house camera board.

### Junior Developer @ Seeing Machines
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
See other entry for description. I worked at Seeing Machines part-time while I was studying at the Australian National University.

### Junior Developer @ Lorica Health
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
This was a part-time job while I was studying.

- Worked on an internal tool to analyse and diff the results of health claims analysis software for quality control purposes. The results were exposed as a web page backed by REST web service so users could drill down into categories. Python, REST, Tornado, JavaScript
- Implemented distributed health claims analysis software on top of Lorica’s Spark-based platform in Java. Mostly worked with the Java 8 streams API, and Spark RDD API.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
The Australian National University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nic-donaldson-000ba8152

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Last updated: 2026-03-29