# Nick Sawhney

> Building AI at EvolutionIQ

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

Software engineer and graduate of New York University. Learn more about me and see some projects at https://nicksawhney.github.io/me/

Creator of Bernie Sits! https://bernie-sits.herokuapp.com/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ EvolutionIQ
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Working on hard data engineering problems, LLM integration features, and full-stack web dev

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States
Full-stack engineer responsible for building and maintaining Native AWS service responsible for batching, validating, and transmitting payments to support critical business operations, including paying Sellers, Vendors, and Twitch Streamers.

### Software Engineer @ Urvin Finance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Lead engineer and architect for cloud-based containerized simulation software to model macroeconomic and financial market trends based on Heterogenous Agent Simulation. This role also involved contributing to the open-source econ-ark toolkit. Developed tools to integrate heterogenous agent simulations with market asset models.

### Data Scientist @ New York City Mayor's Office of the Chief Technology Officer
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Led data-driven research projects to explore effectiveness of various technology-oriented government initiatives.

### Software Engineer @ Bernie Sits App
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY
Built and scaled viral meme-creation application using Flask, CV2, Google Maps, and Heroku amidst press attention and API costs. Covered in BuzzFeed, Wired, NYTimes, Insider, and others. Managed crowdfunding to pay for the site, totaling at 9.8 million API requests over 4 days.

### Developer @ NYU SMAPP: Social Media and Political Participation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Lead engineer on interactive Data Visualization Dashboard.

Full-stack developer on internal web platform for social media data labeling/coding.

### Software Engineer and Data Scientist @ Skopos Labs, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Built and maintained financial simulation and schema enforcement library for machine learning engineers using Pandas, with pipelining using AWS EC2, SQL, and Boto. Managed interns working on data science projects and taught visualization tools, e.g. seaborn. Focused on developer-oriented and test-driven development using nose and pytest.

### Business Director, General Manager @ WNYU Radio
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York

### Project Intern @ John P. and Anne Welsh McNulty Foundation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York
Researched philanthropy network and facilitated connections between donors and recipients.
Proposed and implemented strategies to increase social media presence.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Economics, Politics
New York University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Dougherty Valley High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nick-sawhney-66331b121
- Website: https://nicksawhney.github.io/me

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Last updated: 2026-03-20