About Me


Working as a Principal Accessibility / Technical Designer on a new AAA project at Zenimax Online Studios.
Focused on Technical Implementation, Design, and Product Management.


Previously worked as a senior technical designer at Zenimax Online, and as an engineer on the PUBG and Call of Duty franchises.


Graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in both Computer Sciences and Linguistics, along with an emphasis on game studies.

During school, Nick had internships with Raven Software and Amazon Web Services, freelance Unity development for Flippfly Games, and iOS app development for UW-Madison's Mobile Learning Incubator. You could also have seen him at a hackathon.

His best code is currently in production on servers and games across the world, but the largest available code(old) is here and here. There is also a section of older projects here. Code for this site is here.


Currently Playing: Stardew Valley, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Dredge, and Dragon's Dogma 2

All Time Favs: Dark Cloud, Katamari, Fallout 3/NV, Pokemon Snap, Timesplitters, Edith Finch, Harvest Moon, SOMA, and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Passions: Accessibility Advocate, Language Acquisition, Lego, Animals (especially wearing hats)

Yours truly! Certified by AbleGamers! My PlayStation Trophies! Solved (usually) with Golang!

Selected Games (More...)


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PUBG Title(s!)

Helped start a new engineering team at a young studio working on the PUBG universe!

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CoD: Modern Warfare
CoD: Warzone

Owned large systems in shared engine.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII

Worked on original gameplay concepts.

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Call of Duty Online

Worked on new gameplay modes, engine features and tools, and documentation

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Monologue

Game made on a train! >100,000 plays. Featured at GDC, Gamejolt, and Offworld.

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Race The Sun tvOS

Helped port a prototype of popular indie title Race The Sun to tvOS/AppleTV.

Selected Non-Games


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Amazon.com (AWS)

Large scale data pipeline and analysis tool. More accurate than leading competitors.

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Interactive Dance Envir.

Translate real life dance to Python code. Awarded 2nd place at BoilerMake2014

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Horton The Plant

Brought a plant to life at hackMIT 2013. Tweets how he's feeling based on weather.

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txtdate Date Predictor

Predicts when English novels were written. Uses Naive Bayes and Google ngrams.

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Project Euler

I enjoy practicing my math and Go skills on Project Euler questions.

Selected (Public) Talks/Events


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Hackathon Organizer

Organized and ran hacks and jams at UW. Local Hack Day, 100 person Jam, etc.

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Game Jams vs Hacks

Presentation about how jams and hacks differ. Given at UW and Riot Games.

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Internship Safari

Worked with dept. faculty to help students find and acquire internship skills.

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