Nick Nikolov
Co-Founder at New Material
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Nikolov is a London-based founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-native products and playful, production-ready experiences. As Co-Founder of New Material he ships AI-first product work, and his recent stints as Engineer in Residence and early software engineer at Reve reflect a hands-on mix of UI prototyping and data engineering. Trained in creative computing, sound arts and advanced computer graphics at Goldsmiths, UAL and UCL, he brings a rare blend of audio design sensibility and technical rigor to product problems. He previously worked as a creative developer at Variable.io and cut his teeth with internships and analyst experience at Goldman Sachs, giving him both startup grit and exposure to larger organizations. Notably, he describes himself as an active creator of “weird sounds and clean code,” signaling a practical curiosity that spans sonic experiments to scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Software Engineering, High School, Computer Software Engineering at Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), associated with Technical University-SofiaBachelor of Arts (BA), Sound Arts And Design, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sound Arts And Design at University of the Arts LondonBachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Creative Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, University of LondonUniversity College London
German, Bulgarian, English
Github Skills (130)
3d10
vec10
3d-graphics10
scene-graph10
renderer10
coremltools9
bounding-box9
pbr9
linux9
pex9
windows9
mat9
model-conversion9
extensible9
browserify9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pex-gl/pex-nodes
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:57 PRs, 262 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 2 months
nicknikolov/chroma
Nov 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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