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 - Present

Tenex

Software Engineer

2024 - 2025

Relativity Space

Scientific Applications Software Engineer

2020 - 2024

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Scientific Visualization Intern

2019

NASA 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

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