# Nick Gu

> FDSE @ Palantir

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nickgu

Interested in how we can leverage the cutting-edge to enhance human decision-making.

Passionate about personal development through sport and service.

## Work Experience
### Technical Lead @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2025 – Present | San Diego, California, United States
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### Technical Lead @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2025 – Present | Washington, District of Columbia, United States

### Forward Deployed Software Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2024 – Present | Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Active TS/SCI

### Coach @ Williamsburg Boat Club
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Working with rowers in the learn to row program and current high school athletes transition to competitive rowing.

### Commissioner of Undergraduate Intramurals @ Harvard Recreation
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Organizing and running the 6,400 member intramural program for all undergraduates at Harvard University. Coordinating field logistics, referee training, scoring, etc.

### Teaching Fellow: CS 121 @ Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Teaching fellow for CS121: Intro to Theoretical Computer Science
Preparing lessons, one-on-ones, sections, midterms, and other course materials. Topics include computability, computational complexity, probabilistic computation, and reductions
5.0 Q-guide instructor rating

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Working on improving search in internal Amazon tooling, utilizing ElasticSearch, API redesign, and database management

### Intramurals Representative @ Adams House
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Appointed to this role by the housing committee/house administration
Attending weekly meetings to advocate for student interests in intramural sports
Fostering house spirit and community through organized sports. Handling logistics and creating creative incentives to build participation.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Migrated existing APIs and task pipelines to query a GraphQL service: decreased latency and excess throughput by unifying pipeline tasks.

Collaborated extensively with senior engineers and team members to finalize design parameters

### Staff Writer @ Harvard Political Review
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Selected as a part of the 2020 Summer Journalism Fellowship, a selective program that trains students in key journalistic skills.

Authored pieces on the state of Asian American's Relationship to BLM and the Trump Presidency

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked on an end-to-end project, implementing the AWS suite to replace deprecated infrastructure within the greater team framework

### Student Researcher @ MITRE
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hampton, Virginia, United States
Completed a self-guided research project under Ms. Sara Macdonald and Mr. Jefferson Rhodes.
Using Python to conduct longitudinal statistical analysis on election data, examine demographic trends in voting behavior, and apply machine learning techniques to predict voting tendencies.

### Finance and Campaign Intern @ Martha Mugler's Campaign for Delegate
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Phone banked & canvassed; Staffed campaign events; Solicited & screened donors; Recruited & trained new interns & volunteers; Worked with the financing and advertising of the campaign

### Campaign Intern @ Democratic Party of Virginia
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Phone banked & canvassed; Staffed campaign events; Helped recruited new volunteers


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Government
Harvard University

### High School Diploma
Tabb High School

### Engineering Strand
The Governor's School for Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nick-gu-27139a15a

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Source: https://flows.cv/nickgu
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickgu/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-05