Hello! I’m Nick.

I am an engineer at Blecon, a startup connecting devices to the cloud using Bluetooth Low Energy.

I am head of hardware devices at Blecon, where we are building next-generation beacon networks for tracking items and gathering data about the physical world.

Bluetooth beacons are extremely low-power Bluetooth devices that can be placed in an environment, affixed to objects, or even embedded within other devices. Beacons can report data about their identity, location, and sensor readings.

The utility of a beacon is massively amplified when it is backed by a network of phones, computers, and other devices capable of spotting the beacons and relaying data from these beacons up to the cloud. In the consumer space, a great example is Apple’s Find My network, which power Apple’s AirTags product. We’re building out networks for commercial and industrial customers and their special requirements.

I have a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Throughout my career I have designed many hardware devices and embedded systems. I am most excited when I am working on technologies that span multiple layers of the computing stack.

Previously, I was a product manager at Riverlane and a researcher at Microsoft Research