Summary
Tommy Nyquist is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead manager with 12+ years delivering core infrastructure and performance tooling for Chrome at Google, based in Mountain View. He blends deep systems and networking expertise with hands‑on engineering in C++, Java, Go, and Python, having built trace/metrics pipelines, LevelDB-backed protobuf stores, and Android battery and background integrations. His background spans embedded multithreaded telepresence systems to cloud data pipelines, giving him a rare fluency across low‑level concurrency, protocol design, and large-scale telemetry. Tommy is also a practiced technical leader who founded and grew cross‑functional teams, drove GDPR and modularization efforts, and bridges product, infra, and platform concerns. A dog‑loving tinkerer, he’s known for making Chrome’s runtime and developer tooling measurably better through pragmatic, data‑driven engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Oslo
English, Norwegian