# Nicholas J.

> Principal Software Engineer at Verantos

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

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Verantos
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Verantos
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | United States
** WearOS (2018 - 2020)

** Display Ads Quality - Bidding Optimization (2016 - 2018)
  - Developed bidding pipeline for advertisers to help them equalize performance on different segments. Also performed analysis on pipeline, and showed that it produced a positive gain in revenue for Google.

** Display Ads Quality - Scoring and Ranking (2015 - 2016)
  - Updated models used for ad selection. These changes resulted in reduced CPU usage, but remained revenue neutral.

### Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Created programs to improve monitoring of site and system metrics for breakouts. Additionally developed a procedure to model key metrics during times of heavy user activity

### Summer Intern @ National Security Agency
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Created and maintained C++ and Perl programs for managing error-correcting software.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Operations Research
Cornell University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics
University of Florida


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-j-35853a9a

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Last updated: 2026-04-12