# Nicholas Meyer

> Software Engineer (Platform) at Academia.edu

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

I am currently a Site Reliability Engineer with professional experience in root-causing production issues, configuration management and infrastructure as code tooling (e.g. Ansible, Terraform), PostgreSQL maintenance and availability at scale, as well as full stack web development (Ruby on Rails). I have experience working in large existing codebases as well as starting new projects from scratch. When I'm not at work, some of my interests include playing Factorio and troubleshooting bug reports on the Gentoo Linux Bugzilla.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Academia.edu
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Member of the Site Reliability Engineering team. I ensure reliable and efficient operation of the site (proactive arm of work), as well as respond to incidents through on-call rotation (reactive arm of work). Primary recent focus has been optimization and modernization of the data layer, in particular our PostgreSQL databases. Joined Academia as a full stack software engineer, SRE team member since Q3 2019, SRE team lead and Senior Software Engineer since Q2/Q3 2021.

### Summer Intern (LIGO) @ Caltech
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Evaluated regression methods and tuned hyperparameters to predict properties of merging binary black holes. Delivered proof of concept module demonstrating an improved fitting routine using Gaussian Processes and Decision Trees.

### Summer Intern (LIGO) @ Caltech
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Ran binary black hole simulations and investigated local measures of similarity to the Kerr spacetime.

### Summer Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Analyzed the effects of instrumental behaviors of the Planck satellite on data and sky maps from the mission through simulation. Created python bindings for C implementation of simulation code for data analysis.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS
Caltech


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-meyer
- Portfolio: https://nicholasmeyer.me/
- GitHub: https://github.com/aristocrates

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Last updated: 2026-03-29