Hi, I'm Nick. I work with founders and data/AI teams who need AI actually running in production. The hard part is usually the last mile, where real data and a security review decide whether it survives.
I studied electrical and computer engineering at UCLA, which taught me to think in systems and constraints before features. That led me into solutions architecture: the seat between what a business needs and what actually ships. At Tonic I drive the technical sale and implementation end to end; lately that means leading the scale-out and adoption of software across large organizations. The rest of my time goes to one hard problem at a time. Right now that's Gostly.
I'm based in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and work remotely with teams anywhere. I guard time away from the keyboard, because that's where the energy for the hard problems comes from. When I'm not working, I'm usually in the water.
Most AI projects die in the gap between the demo and production. I live in that gap.
Currently building: Gostly — deterministic in-tenant testing for AI agents in regulated environments.
