About
I'm Nico, a software engineer from the Midwest! My interests in tech span performance engineering, parallelism, and low-level systems. I write about computing, history, and philosophy. I also like to draw, read books, and recently started climbing. You can find me on GitHub or say hi via email [copy].
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Now
I build AI tooling for internal teams in pharma, and I'm learning a bit about CUDA and performance engineering in my spare time. I also help run Baileys Analytics, a small analytics platform for vacation rentals.
I post ad hoc updates to my now page.
Studies
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2026 with a B.S. in Computer Sciences and Data Science. I spent most of my time hanging out in the UPL on campus with my friends.
For two years, I was a member of the Informatics Skunkworks research group, led by Dr. Dane Morgan, where I trained generative models to design new crystal structures with target physical properties. I helped found the Wisconsin Quantum Computing Club as one of its first four officers, and later competed with the group at MIT's IQuHACK. At the UPL, I served as a lab coordinator, introduced its Lightning Talks, and helped organize MadHacks, growing it to a record 417 participants.
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This site is built with Eleventy, HTML, and CSS. No JavaScript by default; posts that need it pull in MathJax, a table of contents, sidenotes, or category filters. Images are converted to AVIF at build time, and links prefetch on hover via instant.page. There's an RSS feed and a sitemap.
Source on GitHub.
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