Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building reliable backend services, distributed cloud systems, developer platforms, and applied AI products.
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Apr 2026—Present
Nick Vaughn Industries
Founder & Senior Software Engineer
Building an independent AI engineering practice through product R&D, cloud-native systems, and open-source technical leadership.
Built and launched OpenUp, a GCP-hosted AI social game that reached 1,200+ usersFounded and lead the Nexus Initiative, 20+ engineers across the U.S., India, and NigeriaBuilt a bilingual English/Japanese voice AI agent with RAG and an animated desktop UIDesigned a multi-agent system architecture for adaptive training with an AI-focused Japanese company
Python
TypeScript
GCP
FastAPI
LangGraph
SQLite
VectorDB
Hugging Face
Multi-Agent Systems
Founder & Senior Software Engineer
Nick Vaughn Industries · Apr 2026—Present
Building an independent AI engineering practice through product R&D, cloud-native systems, and open-source technical leadership.
Built and launched OpenUp, a GCP-hosted AI social game that reached 1,200+ users
Founded and lead the Nexus Initiative, 20+ engineers across the U.S., India, and Nigeria
Built a bilingual English/Japanese voice AI agent with RAG and an animated desktop UI
Designed a multi-agent system architecture for adaptive training with an AI-focused Japanese company
Full Stack Developer
TCWGlobal · Sep 2024—Aug 2025
Led the modernization of a global workforce platform while delivering practical Generative AI, cloud, performance, and workflow improvements for business-critical products.
Improved dashboard load performance by 26% and reduced support tickets by 34%
Designed a RAG solution operating below $5/month to replace a $100K vendor option
Helped revive a near-cancelled platform that reached beta and 10+ corporate clients
Software Development Engineer II (L5)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Oct 2021—May 2024
Designed and operated distributed backend, serverless, and network-automation systems while owning production reliability, technical enablement, and cross-team delivery.
API and infrastructure patterns adopted across 17 AWS teams
Supported an AWS Security migration handling up to 10M transactions per second
Raised Go and TypeScript backend test coverage from 0% to more than 80%
Trained 2,000+ engineers and led a four-engineer delivery effort
Embedded Software Engineer
Omron Automation · Jul 2020—Sep 2021
Developed safety-critical C++ control software for industrial robots running on QNX real-time systems and debugged the boundary between hardware and software.
Improved embedded release and testing efficiency by 60%
Built drivers and interfaces for encoders, amplifiers, and I2C peripherals
FPGA Engineer (Contract)
Omron Automation · Jan 2020—Jul 2020
Developed modular FPGA designs, verification strategies, and hardware-debugging methods for mobile and stationary robotics.
Built verification approaches for synthesized logic and external hardware modules
