Summary
Nicholas Saenz is a founder and experienced software leader with 11 years designing and shipping developer-facing platforms and tools. He currently leads Songblocks, building intuitive workflow software for music artists, and previously served as CTO of HRDRV and as a platform architect at Haven Technologies where he helped design event-driven systems, a novel data-lineage solution, and company-wide engineering best practices. Nicholas blends full-stack engineering—custom server frameworks, Kafka/Postgres eventing, and React front-ends—with hands-on team-building, having scaled product teams and mentored dozens of engineers. Based in Pennsylvania and rooted in information science from Cornell, he pairs a musician’s sensibility with pragmatic technical product thinking. He’s quietly focused on making life easier for creators by turning complex infrastructure into simple, artist-friendly tools.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hershey High School
Information Science, Information Science at Cornell University
English, Spanish