Nick Fiacco is a software engineer and product-minded technologist with 11 years of experience across startups and major cloud infrastructure teams, now a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in San Francisco. He co-founded a YC-backed startup (Demospace W23), bringing hands-on engineering and product leadership experience from roles at Bolt and AWS EFS. His background blends scalable backend systems and product delivery—moving from shipping infrastructure at AWS to building payments and consumer-facing features at Bolt. Nick’s trajectory shows a knack for shifting between maker and manager roles, evidenced by transitions from engineer to product manager and founder. He graduated in Computer Science from Dartmouth and was a high-school valedictorian, signaling both technical depth and early academic drive. Based in the Bay Area, he combines startup grit with experience in production-scale cloud services, making him effective at bridging product vision and reliable implementation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y Combinator
Valedictorian, Valedictorian at Manhasset High School
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Dartmouth College
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