About the Author
I'm Nick, an engineer and leader with years of experience in system design, software design and engineering leadership. In the past, I've worked in high-performance computing, compute graphics, explored AI applications in Oil & Gas, and built engineering teams from the ground up. I currently lead multiple engineering teams and dedicate my spare time to my family, fitness, and personal projects.
My work spans Oil & Gas, Mobile App Development, Productivity, Finance and Insurtech, where I've contributed both as an engineer and a leader. I hold Electrical Engineering and Computer Science degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Houston.
I created this site to document insights, continue learning, teaching, coaching, and share the projects I've built or building. Each article is wholly based on a question, situation, decision, or problem I faced and I write as notes to myself, maybe others will find them useful.
Productivity and Development Stack
as of Mar 2025Here's a look at the tools and languages I use daily.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude & Grammarly
ChatGPT for deep research, Gemini and Claude for other options options. Grammarly polishes it all helping with clarity and tone.
Linear
Project Management (Personal & Professional), MCP Server to Claude Code
Cursor IDE and Claude Code
10x my development speed. I've used Copilot as well, its nice. Hooking up MCP servers here is clutch.
Python & Typescript with React & Next.js
I generally default to these languages for experiments depending on the need of the project. In the past I have written in C, C++, C+, Java and Scala.
Knowledge Management and Note-taking
Notion - For second-brain capture, project planning, and documentation, and recently started experiment with Mem AI.
DevOps & Infra Tooling
GCP & AWS – I build on both clouds depending on product fit and performance. Terraform - For infrastructure as code.