Summary
Nic Asnes is a Senior AI Engineer with eight years of backend-focused software experience, currently building AI products at HubSpot after leading AI and infrastructure efforts at Klaviyo and SimpliSafe. He designs and scales large LLM-backed systems and ETL pipelines—having taken personalized marketing models from 500 to 500k weekly API requests and architected multi-queue crawlers handling millions of URLs. Nic blends deep systems engineering (Kubernetes, gRPC, Docker, Terraform) with product impact, reducing incidents and driving measurable business outcomes like 80% retention gains and $200K/year savings. He mentors engineers across SWE, Data Science, and AI, and has introduced evaluation frameworks to harden LLM services against adversarial prompts. A UMass CS graduate with an MS from Georgia Tech, he’s interested in computer science education and demystifying how production software and AI systems are built. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, well-documented system designs and for turning complex distributed problems into reliable, scalable services.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst