Summary
Nicholas Lam is a Product Designer and Columbia undergraduate studying Financial Economics with a concentration in Computer Science, bringing eight years of cross-disciplinary experience across product, finance, urban design, and research. He currently designs product experiences at Pupil, blending user-centered design with financial and technical literacy to drive practical solutions. His background includes hands-on software engineering for clinical research tools, corporate-level market and financial modeling, and urban infrastructure analysis for multi-billion dollar developments. Nicholas has presented strategic decks and models to executives, secured investor funding for a nonprofit product expansion, and synthesized environmental data for large-scale public projects—demonstrating an ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations. Based in New York, he moves comfortably between prototyping interfaces and building the analytic business case that supports them. Colleagues describe him as a designer who pairs rigorous quantitative thinking with a knack for scaling early-stage products into tangible outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Lexington High School
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Columbia University
Vanderbilt University