Hello, I'm Nich
Technical AI Strategist at Tenex and employee #5. Before that, I built image-processing software and supported mission operations at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My work there spanned Mars rover missions including Perseverance, Curiosity, and Ingenuity, as well as EO projects such as OPERA, ARIA, and NISAR. I later worked at Relativity Space, where I built HITL test infrastructure for the Terran-R rocket. I tend to write about math and computer science, and occasionally about food or trail running.
Experience
Technical AI Strategist
2025 - PresentTenex
Software Engineer
2024 - 2025Relativity Space
Scientific Applications Software Engineer
2020 - 2024NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Scientific Visualization Intern
2019NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Education
M.S. Applied and Computational Mathematics
Johns Hopkins University
B.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics
University of Chicago
B.S. Computer Science with a Specialization in Theory
University of Chicago
Now
- Training for my first 100km at Canyons
- Reading Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
- Trying to learn Homotopy Type Theory
- Just bought a sewing machine