Founder
[We're hiring!] On a mission to enable everyone to become a genius at their job. Makers of Agatha, an answer-engine for the enterprise.
Deon Nicholas
CEO & Co-Founder @forethought
CEO & Co-Founder @forethought
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Experience
Software Engineer
Early member of the team that built FlashBlade, a distributed all-flash file-system for NFS/S3, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning workloads.
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Software Engineer
Member of Commenting and Collaboration Teams. Wrote code for Inline Annotations, Thumbnail Previews, Harmony Badge.
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Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern
Early member of the team that built the Insightics solution in partnership with First Data.
Wrote full stack features ranging from front end (CoffeeScript, Backbone.js,... more Marionette) to back end (proprietary APIs)
Worked directly with First Data executives, as well as other Palantir interns and engineers.
Heavily involved in the ideation, prototyping, iteration, and implementation process of a new feature from the ground up.
Wrote full stack features ranging from front end (CoffeeScript, Backbone.js,... more Marionette) to back end (proprietary APIs)
Worked directly with First Data executives, as well as other Palantir interns and engineers.
Heavily involved in the ideation, prototyping, iteration, and implementation process of a new feature from the ground up.
Software Engineer Intern
Early member of the RocksDB team.
Inventor of the patent-pending Merge Operator Algorithm and Implementation which resulted in 2x increases in efficiency to read-modify-write... more (heavy-update) workloads, and an asymptotic (amortized O(1) instead of O(n)) increase in many cases.
Work now being used to power @Facebook site integrity, myrocks (MySQL on RocksDB), and Mongo on Rocks.
Inventor of the patent-pending Merge Operator Algorithm and Implementation which resulted in 2x increases in efficiency to read-modify-write... more (heavy-update) workloads, and an asymptotic (amortized O(1) instead of O(n)) increase in many cases.
Work now being used to power @Facebook site integrity, myrocks (MySQL on RocksDB), and Mongo on Rocks.
University of Alberta
Machine Intelligence Intern
Two internships at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (amii) (formerly Alberta Innovates Centre for Machine Learning). (2010) Member of the Brain Tumour Analysis Project... more (BTAP), a joint-effort between the University of Alberta and the Cross-Cancer Institute of Alberta to use ML and CV to treat brain tumour patients. (2011) Implemented Reinforcement Learning algorithms in C++ to teach a humanoid robot to walk. Algorithms included: RRT, Policy Gradient, Monte-Carlo search.
Founder
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Projects
RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store.
Software Engineer Intern · Inventor - Merge Operator Algorithm (Patent-Pending)
RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage.
RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage.
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Achievements
Programming Competitions
1. ACM ICPC World Finalist (2x)
2. ACM NAIPC Silver Medalist
3. ACM ECNA Champion
Work
1. Patent (RocksDB Merge Operator, Facebook)
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