# Nick L.

> Founding Engineer & TLM @ Genmo AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nickl

## Work Experience
### Tech Lead Manager @ Genmo
Jan 2025 – Present

### Founding Engineer @ Genmo
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
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### Software Engineer @ Cohere
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
Model Serving

### Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States
Game Engine Systems Performance
◦ Improving Client/Server performance on multiple platforms
(C++, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux)
◦ Worked on engine telemetry pipeline and visualizations for metrics (Docker, Telegraf, ElasticSearch, Kibana)
◦ Enhanced automated performance testing/benchmarking
◦ Profiling alternative memory allocators for Game Engine using benchmarks, internal profiling tools, and
performance telemetry

### Software Engineer @ Argo AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Onboard Libraries and Accelerators
• Bringing up camera pipeline (embedded software, drivers, and GPU infrastructure)
• Writing embedded software on ARM interfacing with camera and FPGA ISP (C++, I2C, UIO)

### Software Engineer @ Argo AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Onboard Runtime
• Created internal tools for data analysis of logs and interacting with logs through AWS.
• Developed and supported bring-up for network ingest process for offloading log data from vehicles.

### Software Engineer @ Kodiak Robotics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
• Worked on software in C++ and Python for embedded systems, controls, sensors, and perception.
• Lead calibration efforts for manual and automatic calibration of sensors (IMU/Lidar/Radar/Camera) on truck.
• Developed and evaluated different algorithms for offboard/onboard calibration.
• Worked on software bring-up, integration,  and evaluated different sensors (LIDAR/camera) and actuators (throttle/steering/brakes/CAN/J1939).
• Integration of different perception modules (2D and 3D detectors) with autonomy stack.

### Software Intern @ Zoox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Foster City, California
• Preformed board bring-up of lighting control board by working with JTAG, BSP, drivers, and HAL and tested with oscilloscope
• Writing embedded software in C++ to control interior lighting system from application layer and created C++ unit tests to test firmware with Google Test
• Developed Python script for C++ code generation using template files

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
• Optimizing CUDA kernels to test different sparse tensor formats for decomposition
• Researching memory architecture of RISCV and benchmarking different memory configurations
• Developed initial 3-stage parallel pipelined processor for GPGPU research that supports simple vector instructions using Chisel, an open-source HDL
• Layed out power routing PCB to connect power system of CubeSat and tested battery using I2C and Arduino
• Developed feedback system to interface with FPGA involving changing Embedded Linux firmware, a power relay, and EL Wire
• Extending Verilog framework for characterizing 3D stacked memories with FPGA hardware
• Modified speech recognition code to degrade quality of voice recognition for collecting data on approximate computing

### Satellite Development Intern @ SpaceX
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Irvine, California
• Created UVM tests to verify operation of interrupt controller and error handling of processor for modem ASIC
• Verified operation of register file with AMBA APB interface
• Setting up regression testing with Bamboo and Jenkins for continuous integration of RTL code

### Firmware Validation Intern @ Tesla
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California
• Performed system validation of HVAC functionality of vehicles through use of a hardware test automation box
• Worked with automated testing system interfacing with car gateway and display to read CAN signals, send commands, and read thermocouple values
• Wrote test suite for testing thermal systems using Python, ROBOT Framework, and Jenkins

### Processing Technologies Intern @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Baltimore, Maryland
• Developed project scripts with Tcl, Python, Bash, and Make to increase compile and regression speed
• Implemented test cases for constrained random testing of RTL block
• Created SystemVerilog UVM test bench consisting of agent, monitor, driver, scoreboard, sequences, and sparsememory to test DUT


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nick-l-b83260106

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Last updated: 2026-04-05