Nicholas Tao

About

I'm a product engineer in New York who likes working across the stack, from backend systems up to the product surfaces people actually touch. What I care about most is the polish, the small details that decide whether a product feels good to use or just technically works. So far that's meant building products across marketplaces, fintech, crypto, data infrastructure, and developer tools through internships at Cockroach Labs, Faire, Wealthsimple, Kiavi, ETHGlobal, and Outschool, alongside a CS degree from Waterloo. Outside of work, I run a YouTube channel as Nicholas T, where I've spent the last six years documenting my journey through software engineering, internships, and early career life. Today the channel reaches 165k subscribers and over 21 million views.

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