# Nicholas Briggs

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasbriggs

Specializing in visualization and analysis

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Alteryx
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California
Member of the Visualytics team.

Alteryx acquired ClearStory Data in April 2019.

### Manager, Analytics/Visualization Front-End Group @ ClearStory Data
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Managing the team that builds the interactive analytics front-end at ClearStory Data.

### Senior Software Engineer, Analysis/Visualization Front-End @ ClearStory Data
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016
• Leading ongoing refactoring to improve reliability and reusability
• Implemented features in D3.js-based visualizations
• Implemented UI features in React and Backbone
• Built the front-end for the schema creation process
• Wrote proposal and design documents for several major features
• Some full-stack exposure, including Ruby and Scala coding

### Principal Software Engineer, Travel @ Rearden Commerce
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Foster City, CA
• Leading development of new application UIs including architecture, coordination with other teams, and prioritization of work.
• Hands-on work on our new stack (Groovy on Grails, YUI, OO JavaScript) and legacy stack (Java, Struts, Spring).
• Mentoring new engineers.
• Functional prototyping of new UI concepts to demonstrate their potential and to explore capabilities of new back-end technologies.
• Participation in on-call rotation, responding to issues in real-time and following up with root-cause analysis.
• Contributions to unit tests and automated functional testing.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon.com
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Seattle, WA
• Worked on Kindle back-end team
• Developed system involving database aggregation and information visualization
• Used Java, Eclipse, JUnit, Perforce

### Software Engineer @ Laserfiche
Jan 2002 – Jan 2007 | Long Beach, CA
• Led a team of 4 developers creating a new version of Web Access, a web-based client in ASP.NET.
• Worked as part of small teams to develop client-side software. Functionality included records management and email support (Laserfiche Client), image processing components (Quick
Fields), and a Word plug-in to generate meeting agendas from XML (Agenda Manager).
• Worked independently on small projects, including architecture, development, and installation. Products supported integration between Laserfiche and other systems.
• Did user interface design work, such as needs analysis, user interviews, concept sketching, and functional prototyping.
• Wrote technical documentation, including code samples for the Laserfiche Integrator's Toolkit and white papers.
• Prepared and delivered presentations at annual end-user and reseller conferences.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science (HCI)
Stanford University

### BS in Computer Science, Cognitive Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickbriggs
- Portfolio: http://nick.wendyandnick.com/portfolio/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12