I'm Nikko.
I love learning about the rules that make our physical world behave. I was, and am, particularly keen in trying the solve the energy crisis by installing wind turbines in every spare patch of land - more on that later.
I’ve worked as a research engineer and product manager at a robotics startup creating haptic force-feedback robots
- think about a robot arm whose hand you hold and move around. It resists your movement so precisely that it can "render textures" of fabric or skin or metal. Useful in simulating surgical procedures in VR
and then as a product manager at a AI document processing startup
- think about doctors notes and insurance quote pdfs that have lots of handwriting, weirdly scanned formatting, and the world's ugliest tables. The product I launched focused on turning these documents into a format readable by machines, allowing users to train machine learning models on their documents at scale
I’m currently a senior product manager at Capital One (not a startup, mind you) working on streaming and analytics systems that support the entire credit card portfolio.
There are a million things that interest me, and I plan to use this blog to help me understand them through writing. Some of my past projects:
- The first ever Biblical math workbook for middle and high school students, consisting of 200 math problems based on the 66 books of the NIV Bible focused on algebra, statistics, geometry, units of measurement, trigonometry, logic, and much more.
- product management in a michelin kitchen
- math books for kids (see Baby's First Bessel)
- a mobile-first completely-free screenwriting application
- making bread at home
- using a calendar like a maniac (see my chrome extension that I’m very proud of)
- using sauerkraut as a room heater
Other projects: