Hi, I’m Nicolas

I like building things with good people.

The story so far

I’m from Maracaibo, Venezuela. It’s called the “Beloved Land of the Sun” and it’s hot as hell. I did a lot of math competitions and Model UN growing up, which is how I ended up at Berkeley studying EECS.

College was fun. I lived at the International House, ran Cal Hacks for a bit, and got really into distributed systems.

After that I moved to Seattle and worked at Amazon for a few years. Built stuff on Kinesis Data Analytics, then worked on the infrastructure for their search LLM. Fixed some bugs in Apache Flink that were driving me crazy.

In 2023 I quit to start Clearest Health with YC. We help doctors get paid by insurance companies. It’s a mess of a problem and I love it.

I live in New York now. Been here three years. Not leaving.

Other stuff

I care a lot about who I work with. I’d take a small hard problem with the right people over a big easy one any day.

Outside of work I ski, sail, do muay-thai, make espresso, collect watches, and cook. I learn things obsessively, which can be good or annoying depending on who you ask.

Click around. Make this place your own. You can scatter some of my favorite pictures throughout.