# Nicholas C.

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasc1

Software engineer focused on backend. Currently interested in programming physical systems, especially in robotics, manufacturing, and automotive applications. Stony Brook University graduate with MS in Computer Science and BS in Computer Science and Applied Math & Statistics (double major).

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center California (IECC)
Jan 2023 – Present | Belmont, California, United States
Working on software for automotive research

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Working on Search Ads Quality

### Software Engineer @ Phone.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Newark, New Jersey, United States
Software Engineering focused on backend Python with AWS

### Graduate Student Researcher @ Stony Brook Data Science & Analytics Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Stony Brook, New York, United States
Competed in Zillow sponsored “Home Value Prediction” Kaggle competition. Used Hadoop and Spark to organize and cleanse large Twitter datasets in support of research students and the lab.

### Software Engineer @ Scala Computing
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States
Designed a web-based job submission portal with software development
 team to schedule HPC workloads in the cloud. Attended Grand Central Tech (class of 2017), a leading NYC startup 
 accelerator where Scala Computing was one of a several recipients.

### NSF Sponsored Research Assistant @ Research Lab of Scalable Data Management and Analytics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Stony Brook, New York, United States
Worked in a big data research lab in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Computer Science. Aided in creating a geocoding system that translated millions of addresses into coordinates. Processed data locally due to sensitivity of health data. Geocoding system used open source tools like Nominatim and PostgreSQL deployed on a local servers.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Dealertrack Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Lake Success, NY
Worked with other interns and employees on the enhancement of a web-based credit application processing system for automotive dealerships; introduced to and worked with Python, Django REST Framework, and SQL Alchemy while using virtual environments, virtual machines, and Github for development of new features; used SCRUM methodologies for development of new features to personal settings page while working with teams.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
Stony Brook University Graduate School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Stony Brook University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Manhasset High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas--cataldo

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Last updated: 2026-04-01