About

I'm Nico, a software engineer from Wisconsin! My interests in tech span full-stack development, performance engineering, and parallelism—and, especially, how we can apply traditional performance principles to AI systems. In my free time, I write about computing, history, and philosophy. I also like to draw, read (paper) books, and recently started to get into climbing.

You can find me on GitHub, Twitter, or say hi via email [copy]!

Now

Right now, I build all sorts of AI and ML tools for the clinical teams I support in my role as a software engineer in "big pharma"— I'm also learning more about performance on the side, with a pinch or two of theory.

I post monthly updates to my now page.

Studies

In 2026, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 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.

Colophon

This site is built with Eleventy, HTML, and CSS. Not too much JavaScript; a few lines unscramble my email on every page, and pages that need more 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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If you'd like to link back to my site, use my 88x31 button.