Nick Shelly
Co-founder & CEO at Apero Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Shelly is a founder and CEO blending deep systems engineering with healthcare innovation, currently scaling Apero to bring pricing transparency to patients and providers nationwide. A Rhodes Scholar and former NSA cyberspace officer turned Silicon Valley engineer, he was employee #2 at Forward Networks and contributed low-level virtualization and flow-caching work at Nicira and Apple. He’s paused a Stanford CS PhD to lead product and go-to-market for modern health tech, pairing rigorous research experience in large-scale network analysis (SNAP) with practical test and automation contributions. Based in San Francisco, Nick brings 13 years of experience building secure, high-performance platforms and a knack for translating academic network theory into production-grade infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Rhodes Scholar MFE / MBA, Rhodes Scholar MFE / MBA at University of OxfordB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at United States Air Force AcademyHigh School Diploma CS & German Studies, High School Diploma CS & German Studies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyY CombinatorPhD Candidate M.S. Computer Science, PhD Candidate M.S. Computer Science at Stanford University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
graph-visualization9
linux8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
build-automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
snap-stanford/snap
Jan 2013 - May 2013
Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP) is a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:27 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the testing infrastructure within the SNAP library. Their work involved modifying and expanding existing tests for graph visualization, specifically focusing on DOT file comparison and platform-specific behavior on Linux. These changes suggest a focus on ensuring the correctness and portability of the graph visualization tools. They also addressed the merging of updates from the master branch, integrating changes from other developers.
stanfordpythonminingpurposegraph
cocuzzo/cs244_pa3
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:26 commits in 7 days
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