Hi, I’m Nick!

• 👋  I’m a tech lead, based in Austin Texas. I build web applications & do machine learning.
• 👨‍💻  I lead a 5 person team at Houseful
• 📖  You can find my detailed job history here
• 📫  Get in touch with me - nick@nickakey.com

My Skills

• 🎨  Front End
  • React, Typescript
  • Next, Redux
• 🦾  Back End
  • Node
• 🤖  Machine Learning
  • Shallow learning
  • Deep Learning
    • Custom neural nets & transfer learning
  • API integrations
    • RAGs
• 🇲🇽 Yo hablo Español

Highlights

🕶  Side Projects

• 📷  Notion Cover Generator
  • Generate custom cover images for Notion
• 📕  ReadHabit.io
  • A mobile-first web app to help you build a reading habit
• 😍  Both projects designed by the super talented Marcela Cárdenas (who also happens to be my Wife!

👨‍🏫   Education

• 🇲🇽  In 2018 I lived in Mexico City and taught deportees Computer Science
• 📹  Some of my Javascript video lectures have become very popular on Youtube
• 📣  I routinely give a popular talk called How to Ace your Interview with Memory Science
• 🎹   I have an interactive talk called How to Play Music by Ear

Software Engineering Work

History

• 📅  I’ve been working as software engineer since 2017